410 CHAPTER 11 continuity, and to ensure that couples follow the prohibition on premarital relationships between men and women (Adler, 2001). Matchmaking in these societies occurs through both family connections and personal advertisements in newspapers. Violence in Relationships Up to this point, we have been considering relationships that are healthy and positive. Sadly, this is […]
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The battered woman syndrome defense, a. k. a. learned helplessness
ITEM December 1990. The governor of Ohio releases from prison twenty — five women who had been convicted of killing or assaulting their husbands or companions.” Each woman claimed the man had abused her. Within months, other governors had followed suit20 Until 1982, anyone who called a premeditated murder self-defense would have been laughed out […]
Negotiating sexual arrangements
Three female couples did discuss sexual exclusivity at the beginning of their relationship. These couples’ sexual negotiations were generally lighthearted, and often took the form of ‘teasing’ or making playful statements about unacceptable behaviours. As Ellen (114a) recounted: I love Holly and I jokingly say, ‘I’m very jealous I don’t want to share her with […]
Momifesto
Affirmations for the Academic Mother cynthia kuhn, josie mills, christy rowe, and ERIN Webster GARETT As graduate students in a rigorous PhD program, we often marveled at the professors raising young children amid the intense demands of academia. Such conversations took place in private, however, as anything outside of publishing and landing a job was […]
HARNESSING THE FATHERS
In the earlier section on feminist responses to the major figures in the classic grand narrative of sociology I used women whose work is recognisable to all but the most blinkered malestream sociologists. In this part of the chapter the focus is on feminist developments from the founding fathers which deviate further from malestream sociology, […]
The Historical Dynamic in Personality
The historicity of personality has been recognized in social theory mainly by constructing historical typologies of character. A particular character type is supposed to be dominant at one period of history and then is swept aside in favour of a new type in a new epoch. The classic sequence is David Riesman’s ‘tradition- directed’, ‘inner-directed’ […]
Love Relationships
Love is one of those things everybody feels but nobody can define completely. (Test yourself: Can you explain fully what you mean when you look at someone special and say, “I love you”?) One way researchers have tried to understand love is to think about what components are essential. In an interesting series of studies, […]
Positively Levitating
While murder is not unknown in martial arts films, it is not synonymous with (or the ultimate aim of) the violence in the films’ narratives and spectacles. Skill and virtue—including the all-important virtues of diligence and humility in the practice of one’s kungfu skills—are traditionally what will triumph, for the goal of perfecting martial arts […]
Relationship Types and Issues
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What role do friends play across adulthood? • What characterizes love relationships? How do they vary across cultures? • What are abusive relationships? What characterizes elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation? J amal and Kahlid have known each other all their lives. They grew up together in New York, attended the same schools, […]
Relationships
11.1 RELATIONSHIP TYPES AND ISSUES Friendships • Love Relationships • How Do We Know: Patterns and Universals of Romantic Attachment Around the World • Violence in Relationships 11.2 LIFESTYLES AND LOVE RELATIONSHIPS Singlehood • Cohabitation • Gay and Lesbian Couples • Marriage • Divorce and Remarriage • Current Controversies: Same-Sex Divorce Presents Challenges • Widowhood […]