“Marriage under Two Roofs”: Feminism and Family Life

2020 ◽  
pp. 243-268
Author(s):  
Amy Aronson
Keyword(s):  
Birth Control ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Love Marriage ◽  
Novel Approaches ◽  
Private Domain

Crystal Eastman ardently pursued equalitarian feminism but also asserted that feminism must have three parts: politics and public policy; wages and the workplace; and—the distinctive final portion—the private domain of love, marriage, and the family. She believed millions of women like herself experienced acute feminist concerns not merely in the battle for economic opportunity in the workforce, or political representation and voice, but also from conflicts between their desire for the rewards of life beyond the home and for the rewards of family as well. She pursued this missing policy analysis for the rest of her life, advocating birth control in the feminist program, the endowment of motherhood, and feminist child-rearing and education. In unpublished articles, she also explored wages for wives and single motherhood by choice. All the while, Eastman was experimenting with a variety of novel approaches to integrating her feminism in own her marriage and family life.

Constituting Love in Persianate Cinemas

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-217
Author(s):  
Pedram Partovi
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Love Marriage ◽  
Economic Ties

Abstract Critics have long regarded the popular cinemas of India, Iran, and Turkey as nothing more than cheap Hollywood knock-offs. While scholars have recognized the geographic and economic ties between these film industries, few have noted their engagement with themes and images particularly associated with earlier Persianate courtly entertainments. Persianate cinemas have challenged modernist ideas of love, marriage, and family life exemplified in Hollywood features and instead taken up older aristocratic conceptions of the family in order to apply them to contemporary society.

The Synod on the Family

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Dillon
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Case Analysis ◽  
Language Group ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Church Teaching

This chapter provides a case analysis of the Catholic Church’s Synod on the Family, an assembly of bishops convened in Rome in October 2014 and October 2015, to address the changing nature of Catholics’ lived experiences of marriage and family life. The chapter argues that the Synod can be considered a postsecular event owing to its deft negotiation of the mutual relevance of doctrinal ideas and Catholic secular realities. It shows how its extensive pre-Synod empirical surveys of Catholics worldwide, its language-group dialogical structure, and the content and outcomes of its deliberations, by and large, met postsecular expectations, despite impediments posed by clericalism and doctrinal politics. The chapter traces the Synod’s deliberations, and shows how it managed to forge a more inclusive understanding of divorced and remarried Catholics, even as it reaffirmed Church teaching on marriage and also set aside a more inclusive recognition of same-sex relationships.

scholarly journals 'So Long, Farewell’

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-133
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Grube
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Maternal Identity ◽  
American Family ◽  
Gone With The Wind ◽  
Academy Awards ◽  
Children And Parents ◽  
The Family

The early 1960s created the brewing of social change before the explosion of the cultural revolution of the late 1960s. In this period, Hollywood released its first family movies, Mary Poppins in 1964 and The Sound of Music in 1965, meant to be enjoyed by children and parents alike. These two movies enjoyed a wealth of surprising success, sweeping the academy awards and establishing The Sound of Music as the top grossing film of all time, surpassing America’s beloved Gone With The Wind. Historians and contemporaries alike have questioned and offered answers as to why two movie musicals would capture the attention of the nation with such force. This thesis seeks to argue that Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music addressed fears concerning the breakdown of family life, feminine and maternal identity, questions of child rearing and provided wholesome family entertainment that the American family was seeking, while pioneering as the first films in the family movie movement.

Understanding Continuities and Changes in Irish Marriage: Putting Women Centre Stage

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pat O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Family System ◽  
Institutional Structure ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Life Stages ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
The Family

Contemporary changes and continuities in marriage and family life can be understood by focusing on women. Five main patterns may make sense of these phenomena: women's continued identification with and absorption within the family system; negotiation within marriage; a feminised conception of love; an attempt to transform the structural and cultural parameters of marriage and family life; and an uncoupling of the traditional sequence of marriage, sexual activity and procreation. These patterns are not mutually exclusive, but may be differentially adopted by women at different life-stages and from different social classes. It is argued that women are involved in these various responses in an attempt to deal with the reality of the institutional structure of marriage within a social and cultural context which is not always responsive to their needs and interests.

scholarly journals Transformation of the desired family model in different generations: Results of the All-Russian sociological study

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-545
Author(s):  
T. K Rostovskaya ◽  
O. V Kuchmaeva
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Multivariate Statistical ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Family Model ◽  
The Family ◽  
Happy Family

The difficult demographic situation and the search for an effective model of demographic and family policy have revived the discourse about the Russian family model. The article aims at describing general and specific characteristics of the desired family model in different generations to identify vectors of transformation of the family institution and directions of the family policy. The authors conclusions are based on the statistical data, all-Russian population censuses (2002 and 2010), micro-census (2015), sample surveys of the Federal State Statistics Service, and the results of the authors research conducted in 2019. Ideas about the desired family model change under the influence of cultural and social-economic factors and differ between generations; therefore, a comparison of the opinions of different generations allow to identify transformations of the desired family model and directions of family policy. Family is still a significant value for Russians, but the model of the desired family changes towards nuclearization, mosaic family life models, decreasing role of formal mechanisms for regulating marriage, and increasing share of people who do not want a family. The discourse about the traditional family model, which is the basis of the Russian family policy, is supported by many Russians only formally. In general, Russians ideas about the desired family model change in the direction of liberalizing norms and attitudes to marriage and family life, and there are serious generational differences. Methods of multivariate statistical analysis allowed the authors to identify typological groups that differ in their ideas about the happy family.

scholarly journals Călătorie prin trecut și prezent. Căsătoria și regimurile matrimoniale

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 567-608
Author(s):  
Carmen Oana Mihăilă ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Consensual Union ◽  
The Family ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Marital Union

"Marriage certainly has an interesting evolution, sometimes even spectacular. This institution, related to that of the family, has played an important role in society throughout the evolution of humanity, from a means of protection, to an alliance, reaching in our times a consensual union based on love. Society and marriage, as we will see, have a parallel development and any change in the values of human society also determines changes in the definition of the concepts of marriage and family. For example, the decrease in women's dependence played a decisive role, as it participated morally and financially in the development of married life. The changes in the management of cultural and ideological family life bring us to our times when there is more and more talk about same-sex marriages. Whether we call forth historical data or legal regulations, or whether we turn our attention to religion, literature, or art, marital union is the source of inspiration that has endured over time."

Familial Undercurrents

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afsaneh Najmabadi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Polygamous Marriage ◽  
Iranian Family ◽  
Love Marriage ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Companionate Marriage ◽  
The Ideal

Not long after her father died, Afsaneh Najmabadi discovered that her father had a secret second family and that she had a sister she never knew about. In Familial Undercurrents, Najmabadi uncovers her family’s complex experiences of polygamous marriage to tell a larger story of the transformations of notions of love, marriage, and family life in mid-twentieth-century Iran. She traces how the idea of “marrying for love” and the desire for companionate, monogamous marriage acquired dominance in Tehran’s emerging urban middle class. Considering the role played in that process by late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century romance novels, reformist newspapers, plays, and other literature, Najmabadi outlines the rituals and objects---such as wedding outfits, letter writing, and family portraits---that came to characterize the ideal companionate marriage. She reveals how in the course of one generation men’s polygamy had evolved from an acceptable open practice to a taboo best kept secret. At the same time, she chronicles the urban transformations of Tehran and how its architecture and neighborhood social networks both influenced and became emblematic of the myriad forms of modern Iranian family life.

scholarly journals Cultural Model of Marriage and Family, as Shown in Selected Polish TV Series - A Pastoral Challenge for the Catholic Church

2020 ◽  
Vol XVIII (2) ◽  
pp. 311-323
Author(s):  
Anna Zellma ◽  
Wojsław Czupryński
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Cultural Model ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Quantitative Analysis Method ◽  
The Church

The analyses conducted in this paper aimed at presenting the standard for the marriage and family, which is created in Polish TV series, and subsequently noting the pastoral challenges arising from them. The quantitative analysis method was applied to stress the issues presented in the TV series. The moral issues dealt with in the series and their popularity in various social groups in Poland were the criteria for choosing the TV series. The qualitative analysis has shown that Polish TV series promotes alternative forms of marriage and family life. They are very different from the Catholic model of marriage and family. This provided grounds for the conclusions. It was observed that the Church is obliged to take up new pastoral challenges as a result of the TV series’ impact of Poles’ views and beliefs. Preparing young people to the sacrament of marriage and education for life in the family should be a priority. The Church should become involved in creating TV series which promote the Christian model of the marriage and family.

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