The vulnerable self: narratives of heterosexual marriage in Taiwan

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Ting-Fang Chin
Keyword(s):  
Heterosexual Marriage

“If I Don’t Allow Him to Have Sex With Me, Our Relationship Will Be Broken”: Rape, Sexual Coercion, and Sexual Compliance Within Marriage in Rural Cambodia

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780122110211
Author(s):  
Panteá Farvid ◽  
Rany Saing
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Coercion ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Forced Sex ◽  
Critical Realist ◽  
Consensual Sex ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Sexual Compliance ◽  
Heterosexual Marriage

Rape, sexual coercion, and sexual compliance within marriage are major components of gender-based violence globally. This article examines a range of non-consensual sexual experiences within heterosexual marriage in Aoral and Thpong districts in Kampong Speu, Cambodia. Interviews were conducted with 11 married women and thematically analyzed from a critical realist and feminist perspective. Four categories of non-consensual sex were identified and analyzed (rape/forced sex, sexual coercion, sexual compliance, and internalized pressure). These are discussed in detail, alongside the need for educational efforts that disrupt traditional gender norms that create a context conducive to women’s non-consensual sex in Cambodia.

scholarly journals Traditional Ambivalence and Heterosexual Marriage in Canada

Ethnologies ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-183
Author(s):  
Pauline Greenhill ◽  
Angela Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Prince Edward Island ◽  
Married Couple ◽  
English Canada ◽  
Late Night ◽  
Wedding Ceremony ◽  
Newly Married ◽  
Heterosexual Marriage ◽  
Prairie Provinces

Queer moments abound in traditional rituals associated with marriages and weddings, not only in some regions of English Canada but in most European and European-colonised locations. In the Prairie provinces and Ontario, mock weddings (folk dramatic travesties of the Christian/majoritarian wedding ceremony, usually performed cross dressed) can interrupt wedding showers or milestone anniversary parties. And from Prince Edward Island to British Columbia, charivaris (late night visits to a newly married couple, featuring extreme noisemaking and/or traditional trickery) can follow a marriage. The authors question whether these practices transgress against conventional heterosexual marriage or merely ritualise and thus contain potential resistance to its strictures, and find that they do both.

scholarly journals Kristendom & sex - Den sexfjendtlige kristendom

2018 ◽  
pp. 141-152
Author(s):  
Poul Joachim Stender
Keyword(s):  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
Conservative Christians ◽  
Heterosexual Marriage ◽  
Spirituality And Sexuality ◽  
Liberal Christians

For centuries Christianity has emerged as the most sex adverse religion on earth. However, it was not Jesus who made the world chaste. Indeed it was the world that made Jesus chaste. When reading the Bible it is obvious that the scriptures are anything but hostile towards sex. Eroticism is one of God’s great gifts to humankind. There is a connection between spirituality and sexuality. Both are part of a force that allows man to reach out – to reach beyond himself to make connections to and with others. Today sexuality is accepted as being created by God and Christianity is no longer hostile towards sexuality. Nonetheless, conservative Christians still lock up sexuality within the boundaries of lifelong heterosexual marriage, and liberal Christians do not discuss sexuality very often.

scholarly journals “De-centre-ing” sexual difference in public and ecclesial discourses on marriage

2008 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda Dreyer
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Sexual Intimacy ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Linguistic Expression ◽  
Biological Difference ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Knowledge ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Heterosexual Marriage

Public and ecclesial discourses influence opinions on the institution of heteronormative marriage. The term “discourse” indicates that private knowledge and experiences are made known in the public sphere. Against this background the article focuses on three postmodern approaches to a theology of marriage with regard to the significance or insignificance of the biological difference between femaleness and maleness. The first approach is that of marriage as a linguistic expression of intimacy in a relationship. According to this view, heterosexual marriage is not seen as the only possibility for expressing the intimate relationship between God and human beings. The second approach assumes that love and caring, supposedly inherent to heterosexual marriage, can also exist in other relationships. This implies that marriage as institution should also be available to people in relationships other than heterosexual. The third approach emphasizes marriage and sexuality as being embedded in community. Such a view makes sexual difference and procreation peripheral to sexual ethics. The aim of this article is to suggest a further option for consideration, namely the “de-centreing” of sexual difference in the theology of marriage. This postmodern option pleads for a respect for privacy with regard to sexual intimacy, also in ecclesial and public discourse.

scholarly journals 家庭與社會公義

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-48
Author(s):  
Lawrence YUNG
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Sexual Freedom ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Digital Commons ◽  
The Family ◽  
Gender Neutrality ◽  
Heterosexual Marriage

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract in English only.Mark Cherry’s article identifies claims regarding individual autonomy, gender neutrality, and rights to sexual freedom as taking a commanding place within the secular liberal recasting of the family to grant same-sex marriage the same legal status as heterosexual marriage. Cherry refers to Plato’s proposal of abolishing family in Republic (Book V) as a precursor to reforming the family to engineer currently favored versions of social justice. This paper adds to the discussion on family and social justice with an explication of this proposal of abolishing family and a comparison with the Confucian ideal of Great Unity.DOWNLOAD HISTORY | This article has been downloaded 122 times in Digital Commons before migrating into this platform.

scholarly journals 權利與善——論同性婚姻

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-114
Author(s):  
Xudong FANG
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Digital Commons ◽  
Reductio Ad Absurdum ◽  
Traditional Marriage ◽  
Heterosexual Marriage ◽  
The Ideal

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English.本文由兩個部分構成，第一部分闡述了不反對同性婚姻合法化的理由，逐一討論了對同性婚姻合法化的五種反對意見，認為它們都不成立。第二部分論述了儒家推崇異性婚姻的原因，其主要考慮是同性婚姻不能像異性婚姻那樣可以提供倫理的完整性。作者強調，作為公民權利，同性婚姻可以被自由追求，但作為儒家則以異性婚姻為婚姻的理想模式。前者事關權利，後者事關“善”，有各自的界限，不得逾越。This paper consists of two parts. In the first part, the author refutes, one by one, five objections to the legalization of same-sex marriage, including arguments grounded in naturalness, origin, reductio ad absurdum, compromising traditional marriage, and Jiang Qing’s doctrine of particular human rights. The strongest reason for advocating the legalization of same-sex marriage is the doctrine of equal rights. As contemporary people, we have no reason to deny that all individuals have equal rights. The second part discusses why Confucianism prefers heterosexual marriage. The main consideration is that same-sex marriages cannot provide ethical integrity, as heterosexual marriages do. The author emphasizes that, as a civil right, same-sex marriage can be pursued freely, but for a Confucian, heterosexual marriage is the ideal mode of marriage. The former concerns what is “right,” whereas the latter relates to what is “good.” There is an insurmountable boundary between right and good.DOWNLOAD HISTORY | This article has been downloaded 423 times in Digital Commons before migrating into this platform.

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