A SOCIOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT ON WOMEN, HONOR AND DIVORCE

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (16) ◽  
pp. 189-213
Author(s):  
Dolunay ŞENOL ◽  
Sümeyye KILIÇ
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Masculine Ideology ◽  
Marriage And Divorce ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Interview Group

In this study, in which the effect and consequences of gender roles and patriarchy on women's marriage and divorce experiences were tried to be understood, face-to-face interviews were conducted with twelve divorced women and a semi-structured interview from specially created for the study was used in the interviews. In line with masculine ideology and gender roles; It is possible to say that it is perceived and evaluated within the framework of private space, motherhood, body and honor. Accordingly, it is seen that women’s life is tried to be organized and disciplined on the basis of these ideological foundations in all processes before marriage, after marriage and after divorce. It is inevitable that women, who are not given equal opportunities and opportunities in access to education and working life as much as men, face much more severe situations in marriage and divorce processes. Depending on gender, it is understood that divorce creates different problems and grievances for women than man. In this study, the problems experienced by the divorced women before, during and after the divorce were evaluated only through the data of the interviews with the women included in the interview group and tried to be interpreted from a sociological point of view.

scholarly journals It’s A Private Matter. Space And Gender Issues In Shakespeare’s Cymbeline

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-94
Author(s):  
Dana Percec
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Visual Illustration ◽  
English Society ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Private Matter

Abstract The paper investigates the preoccupations of the 16th and 17th-century English society for the emerging phenomenon and concept of privacy, reflected, among others, in the new ways in which space is employed in defining hierarchies and gender roles. The paper deals with elements of cultural history related to the use and meaning of privacy, private life and private space in a Shakespearean play which is significant for the visual illustration of the concept – Cymbeline, more specifically, the bed-trick scene.

Gender in the Discursive Practices of the Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Former East Germany

2011 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Rajtar
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
East Germany ◽  
Religious Discourse ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Jehovah’S Witnesses ◽  
Jehovah's Witnesses ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
And Gender

The author analyzes the construction of gender and gender roles among the Jehovah’s Witnesses in the former East Germany. From a religious point of view, wives and women in general are subordinate to their husbands, fathers, etc. Within a family and in congregations men are expected to “take the lead” and are responsible for their wives and children. In the former German Democratic Republic this religious discourse competed with the egalitarian and secular discourse of the socialist state, which emphasized the necessity for women to work and the importance of public childcare. Thus, the author addresses the question: how and to what extent did this official state discourse influence the Witnesses’ discursive practices on gender during socialism and until the present day? The author has based her article on extensive ethnographic fieldwork on the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Saxony, eastern Germany.

Beauty, Choice, and Empowerment

2016 ◽  
pp. 191-207
Author(s):  
Jinat Hosain
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Cosmetic Surgery ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Common Problems ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas

This study tries to explore the interrelated dynamics among cosmetic surgery, choice and empowerment. While poverty, poor health accessibility and gender inequality are common problems in Bangladesh, a growing number of cosmetic clinics are being established and a number of women are increasingly taking up cosmetic surgeries. This study seeks to explore why women choose cosmetic surgeries for beautification, how they experience it and whether cosmetic surgery leads women to be empowered or not. Using qualitative research methods, this study used in-depth semi structured interview, observation and case study method to collect the data from the different cosmetic surgery patients, coming from both urban and rural areas of Bangladesh. The data was further analyzed by coding informants' responses into themes based on the research objectives and the theory, named ‘empowerment'. The study shows that even if the women choose surgery, it does not necessarily enhance their empowerment. That is the surgery that brings changes in physical appearance and might make them attractive, but it contributes little socially in terms of enabling them to make own decision in the contest of family and in community. Rather these women act as prescribed by patriarchal norms and gendered rules. Analyzing the data from theoretical point of view, this study found that the women, irrespective of regional boundaries, can rarely fulfill the condition of empowerment in relation to choice and IAP. The study concludes with some questions and queries that need more research to be answered.

The Gospels and Acts

2019 ◽  
pp. 293-314
Author(s):  
Amy-Jill Levine
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Single View ◽  
Marriage And Divorce ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
And Gender

The Gospels and Acts do not present a single view of either gender or sexuality; inconsistencies appear both within and among this collection. Yet despite these differences, there is a common baseline regarding sexuality, masculinity, and femininity. Consequently, this chapter begins from that baseline and then moves to the several distinct chords and notes struck by each text. The analysis surveys a broad range of topics including celibacy and singleness, marriage and divorce, lust, masturbation, adultery, incest, prostitution, and gender roles, as well as investigation of specific themes in each of the Gospels and Acts.

Determination of nurses’ views on gender role attitudes: A Ccoss-sectional Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
Y.Y. Ayten ◽  
Özcan Ayşegül
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Role ◽  
Gender Role Attitudes ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Training And Research ◽  
Questionnaire Form ◽  
And Gender

<b>Background:</b> Gender roles have been defined as the roles and responsibilities attributed by the society to women (feminine) and men (masculine) and how the society views, perceives, thinks of them and the expectations of the society about how they should behave. Awareness should be increased in nurses so that they can take a look at their own lives critically. This study was conducted to find out the views of nurses about gender role attitudes. <br><b>Methods:</b> This descriptive study was conducted with 200 nurses who agreed to participate in the study in a training and research hospital between June 15 and August 15, 2017. The data were collected through face to face interview with a questionnaire form. Questionnaire form consists of descriptive characteristics form and Gender Role Attitudes Scale (GRAS). Descriptive and analytical statistics were used in the assessment of data. <br><b>Results:</b> Average age of the nurses who participated in the study was found as 30.37±7.28. It was found that 83.5% of the nurses had not received any education for gender roles. It was found that almost half of the nurses thought the best aspect of being a man was “being free”, while the best aspect of being a woman was “being a mother”; it was also found that men should not “show violence” and women should not “be unfaithful”; both genders should be taught to “be respectful” and “not be allowed to be disrespectful”. Nurses’ average GRAS score of 121.18±11.37 showed that they had equalitarian attitude about gender roles. Conclusion: The results that nurses can look at their own lives with a critical eye and have an equalitarian attitude in gender roles are significant in terms of more quality and equality-based health services.

scholarly journals The Ethnoarchaeology of a Swedish Village

1994 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-209
Author(s):  
Stig Welinder
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Economic Structure ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Village

The village of Nyberget, Dalarna, Central Sweden, during the 19th century is studied from an ethnoarchaeological point of view. The dynamic flexibflity and ambiguity of the cultural landscape of the village and its households are stressed. This is understood in relation to economic structure and gender roles. The concepts used in understanding the historical village form a challenging starting-point for understanding a prehistoric cultural landscape.

scholarly journals The vicissitudes of victorian masculinity

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Μαρία Πυργέρου
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Gender Theory ◽  
Wuthering Heights ◽  
Vanity Fair ◽  
Normative Concepts ◽  
Patriarchal Ideology ◽  
Picture Of Dorian Gray ◽  
And Gender

Victorian canonical realist fiction was presumably the means of representing dominant ideological conventions especially those related to gender roles and norms. This dissertation argues that fictional bachelor figures evaded the contemporary construction of normative manhood, veering away from traditional masculine prerogatives, thus disrupting the cultural ideal of bourgeois domesticity which was part of the imperialist and industrialist expansion of the Anglo-Saxon world. Contemporary theoretical research in psychoanalysis and gender theory deconstructs what patriarchal ideology had so carefully constructed in terms of normative concepts of gender roles and relations. In my dissertation I contend that from the point of view of Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic concepts and Judith Butler’s insights into gender theory, Victorian bachelor figures are unrepresentable as masculine subjects within Victorian ideology as they do not fulfill their cultural gender objectives. In order to establish this thesis, I will deconstruct the representation of the figure of the bachelor as a masculine subject in the way/s he is “interpellated” both in dominant patriarchal ideology and in the realist texts which attempt to represent him. My analysis, then, aims to unravel the means by which the realist text can be read as subversive especially with regard to the representation of bachelor figures as transgressive masculine subjects functioning within the prescriptive politics of patriarchy. In this light, my reading of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, W.M. Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, Henry James’s Roderick Hudson and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray will demonstrate that the representation of the bachelor heroes’ subjectivities is elusive and undecidable because, a part of it, is never fully realized, expressed or articulated. As such, these subjectivities constitute a linguistic and thus representational gap, an omission which, in turn, reveals the inability of dominant ideology to represent what is deviant, different or incoherent

scholarly journals Gender roles and education as elements for the explanation of fertility by the type of settlement in Serbia

Demografija ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 29-54
Author(s):  
Ankica Šobot
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Reproductive Period ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Cumulative Fertility ◽  
Demographic Indicators ◽  
Urban Settlements ◽  
And Gender

This text is aimed at the consideraton of differences related to fertility of urban and non-urban settlements in Serbia, from the point of view of differentiation concerning education and gender roles. The discussion framework consists of the results of relevant empirical researches that consider gender equality, as well as the presented data about level of education for both types of settlements. In terms of fertility, we used census data and presented two indicators. These are the cumulative live birth rates and the shares of women who have not given birth. The focus is on the generations born in the second half of the 20th century, observing the cohorts that are in the reproductive period, as well as those that came out. Differences between urban and non-urban settlements are not only observed for Serbia as a whole, but are also placed within the framework of statical regional areas. The decline in cumulative fertility, the postponement of parenthood and the shares of women without children both in the optimal reproductive period and in the cohorts at the end of reproductive period are more pronounced in the urban population. However, these tendencies also have existed in non-urban settlements, despite the fact that the observed fertility indicators do not reflect the difficulty of regulating low fertility in this type of settlement. Very low cumulative fertility rates in the urban settlements are the result of insufficient adjustment of the institutional framework to emancipatory processes in the sphere of gender roles. The negative effects of traditional patriarchy in non-urban settlements are more visible through some other demographic indicators that are closely related to the issue of low fertility. Hence, the importance of the gender aspect cannot be neglected when it comes to non-urban settlements.

Cross-border Migration and Gender Boundaries in Central Eastern Europe – Female Perspectives

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 499-509
Author(s):  
Ágnes Erőss ◽  
Monika Mária Váradi ◽  
Doris Wastl-Walter
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Livelihood Strategy ◽  
Central Eastern Europe ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Dual Earner ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Boundaries

In post-Socialist countries, cross-border labour migration has become a common individual and family livelihood strategy. The paper is based on the analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted with two ethnic Hungarian women whose lives have been significantly reshaped by cross-border migration. Focusing on the interplay of gender and cross-border migration, our aim is to reveal how gender roles and boundaries are reinforced and repositioned by labour migration in the post-socialist context where both the socialist dual-earner model and conventional ideas of family and gender roles simultaneously prevail. We found that cross-border migration challenged these women to pursue diverse strategies to balance their roles of breadwinner, wife, and mother responsible for reproductive work. Nevertheless, the boundaries between female and male work or status were neither discursively nor in practice transgressed. Thus, the effect of cross-border migration on altering gender boundaries in post-socialist peripheries is limited.

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