Most adults want their love relationships to result in marriage. However, U. S. residents are in less of a hurry to achieve this goal; the median age at first marriage for adults in the United States has been rising for several decades. As you can see in Figure 11.5, between 1970 and 2006, the median […]
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The burning bed murders
In 1984, Farrah Fawcett starred in an NBC-TV movie called The Burning Bed, based on a true incident in which an abused wife murdered her husband by burning him to death while he slept. The courts freed her because she had been abused.26 The TV movie’s Nielsen rating exceeded that of the World Series, making […]
The Challenge and Possibility for Black Males to Embrace Feminism
Luke Charles Harris MUCH OF THE idea that Black politics should center on men seems driven by the notion that a Black male-centered political agenda best promotes Black unity and empowerment. The costs of this misguided logic are enormous. For pseudo-nationalistic male-centered visions of politics lead us to support figures, like Justice Clarence Thomas, whose […]
THE DADDY HIERARCHY
I he cultural preferences of many Americans are probably expressed in a conversation between children described in Sweet Summer, a memoir by Bebe Moore Campbell. In it, she tells of four African American girls growing up in the urban middle class of the 1950s. Their fathers had divorced ‘heir mothers, but to varying degrees the […]
THE DADDY HIERARCHY
I he cultural preferences of many Americans are probably expressed in a conversation between children described in Sweet Summer, a memoir by Bebe Moore Campbell. In it, she tells of four African American girls growing up in the urban middle class of the 1950s. Their fathers had divorced ‘heir mothers, but to varying degrees the […]
Gay and Lesbian Couples
Less is known about the developmental course of gay and lesbian relationships than heterosexual relationships, largely because they were almost never the focus of research. To date, gay and lesbian relationships have been studied most often in comparison to married heterosexual couples. What is it like to be in a gay or lesbian relationship? Like […]
Refusing innovation
It would be trite to see young same-sex couples’ refusals to innovate with respect to sexual commitments simply as an illustration of how they mimic heterosexuality. Nevertheless, couples’ and partners’ investments in the link between commitment and sexual monogamy were clearly influenced by a sense of what mature committed relationships should be like. Even in […]
What happens when a man has battered man syndrome?
Tom Hayhurst grew up watching his mother throw phones and dishes at his dad. His dad never returned the beatings24 and was too emotionally dependent to leave. Finally, his dad fatally shot himself in the head. Tom’s mom abused each of the children as well. The children eventually moved away, except for Tom’s sister, who […]
A Black Man’s Place in Black Feminist Criticism
Michael Awkward MANY ESSAY S BY male and female scholars devoted to exploring the subject of male critics’ place in feminism generally agree about the uses and usefulness of the autobiographical male "I." Such essays suggest that citing the male critical self reflects a response to (apparent) self-difference, an exploration of the disparities between the […]
Cohabitation
Being unmarried does not necessarily mean living alone. People in committed, intimate, sexual relationships but who are not married may decide that living 416 CHAPTER 11 together, or cohabitation, provides a way to share daily life. Cohabitation is becoming an increasingly popular lifestyle choice in the United States as well as in Canada, Europe, Australia, […]