Allison Dorothy Fredette
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813179155
- eISBN:
- 9780813179162
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813179155.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
Not quite the Cotton Kingdom or the free labor North, the mid-nineteenth-century border South was a land in between. There, the clashing ideologies of this era—slavery and freedom, urban and rural, ...
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Not quite the Cotton Kingdom or the free labor North, the mid-nineteenth-century border South was a land in between. There, the clashing ideologies of this era—slavery and freedom, urban and rural, industrial and agrarian—met, merged, and melded. As they did, they formed something new—a fluid, flexible identity that somehow grew from these tensions while rising above them. This border identity would play a critical role in these states’ experiences during the secession crisis, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Yet, this story—one of political division, internal warfare, and economic struggles—is only one part of the border South’s larger saga. Focusing on the heart of this complicated region, Marriage on the Border reveals how this border environment shaped the lives and loves of Kentuckians, West Virginians, and Appalachian Virginians. Inundated with conflicting messages about marriage, divorce, and gender, these border southerners set their own path. In an era when advice manuals urged all Americans to adopt new ideals of companionate marriage and loving mutuality, border southerners proved especially receptive to these notions. Additionally, when these marriages crumbled, border southerners found ways to divorce more easily than other southerners of this era. Marriage on the Border follows border southerners through their courtships and into their homes, through blissful marriages and turbulent divorce dramas, through secession, war, and reconstruction. Along the way, Marriage on the Border captures the turmoil and confusion of this era, not in its legislative halls or on the battlefield, but in the households of those who lived at the heart of the country.Less
Not quite the Cotton Kingdom or the free labor North, the mid-nineteenth-century border South was a land in between. There, the clashing ideologies of this era—slavery and freedom, urban and rural, industrial and agrarian—met, merged, and melded. As they did, they formed something new—a fluid, flexible identity that somehow grew from these tensions while rising above them. This border identity would play a critical role in these states’ experiences during the secession crisis, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Yet, this story—one of political division, internal warfare, and economic struggles—is only one part of the border South’s larger saga. Focusing on the heart of this complicated region, Marriage on the Border reveals how this border environment shaped the lives and loves of Kentuckians, West Virginians, and Appalachian Virginians. Inundated with conflicting messages about marriage, divorce, and gender, these border southerners set their own path. In an era when advice manuals urged all Americans to adopt new ideals of companionate marriage and loving mutuality, border southerners proved especially receptive to these notions. Additionally, when these marriages crumbled, border southerners found ways to divorce more easily than other southerners of this era. Marriage on the Border follows border southerners through their courtships and into their homes, through blissful marriages and turbulent divorce dramas, through secession, war, and reconstruction. Along the way, Marriage on the Border captures the turmoil and confusion of this era, not in its legislative halls or on the battlefield, but in the households of those who lived at the heart of the country.
Lawrence Stone
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198226512
- eISBN:
- 9780191678646
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198226512.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, Social History
This chapter traces the story of the divorce revolution from the first breach in the barrier in 1857 to the situation in 1987. As changing social mores came into conflict with resisting legislative ...
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This chapter traces the story of the divorce revolution from the first breach in the barrier in 1857 to the situation in 1987. As changing social mores came into conflict with resisting legislative conservatism and wavering religious beliefs, the end result churned out around 150,000 divorces a year by 1987. The discussion explores why divorce grew only very slowly after the Divorce Act of 1857, so that the numbers were still negligible in 1914. It also examines why, after 1914, and especially after 1960, there was an unprecedented growth in the number of divorces, accompanied by weakening moral controls over adultery by either sex.Less
This chapter traces the story of the divorce revolution from the first breach in the barrier in 1857 to the situation in 1987. As changing social mores came into conflict with resisting legislative conservatism and wavering religious beliefs, the end result churned out around 150,000 divorces a year by 1987. The discussion explores why divorce grew only very slowly after the Divorce Act of 1857, so that the numbers were still negligible in 1914. It also examines why, after 1914, and especially after 1960, there was an unprecedented growth in the number of divorces, accompanied by weakening moral controls over adultery by either sex.
Patrick Polden
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199258819
- eISBN:
- 9780191718151
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199258819.003.0020
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History
This chapter discusses the duties and procedures of various courts in the 19th century. These include ecclesiastical courts, the court of Admiralty, court of Probate, and Divorce court.
This chapter discusses the duties and procedures of various courts in the 19th century. These include ecclesiastical courts, the court of Admiralty, court of Probate, and Divorce court.
Wendie Ellen Schneider
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780300125665
- eISBN:
- 9780300216554
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300125665.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
In the new Divorce Court, concerns about perjury regarding matters as delicate as adultery prompted the re-invention of the Queen’s Proctor in 1860. If the Queen’s Proctor discovered upon ...
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In the new Divorce Court, concerns about perjury regarding matters as delicate as adultery prompted the re-invention of the Queen’s Proctor in 1860. If the Queen’s Proctor discovered upon investigation that petitioners had lied, they would be denied their divorces. This chapter follows the activities of the Queen’s Proctor during its first twenty-five years, revealing the ways in which cases were selected for scrutiny. Ultimately, the Queen’s Proctor’s inquisitorial role in divorce cases was deemed a failure, both because of moral scruples about the double standard in divorce law and because of conflicts generated by the incompatibility of inquisitorial and common-law models.Less
In the new Divorce Court, concerns about perjury regarding matters as delicate as adultery prompted the re-invention of the Queen’s Proctor in 1860. If the Queen’s Proctor discovered upon investigation that petitioners had lied, they would be denied their divorces. This chapter follows the activities of the Queen’s Proctor during its first twenty-five years, revealing the ways in which cases were selected for scrutiny. Ultimately, the Queen’s Proctor’s inquisitorial role in divorce cases was deemed a failure, both because of moral scruples about the double standard in divorce law and because of conflicts generated by the incompatibility of inquisitorial and common-law models.
Yue Chim Richard Wong
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9789888390625
- eISBN:
- 9789888390373
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888390625.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Public and Welfare
When discussing inequality and poverty in Hong Kong, scholars and politicians often focus on the failures of government policy and push for an increase in social welfare. Richard Wong argues in ...
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When discussing inequality and poverty in Hong Kong, scholars and politicians often focus on the failures of government policy and push for an increase in social welfare. Richard Wong argues in Fixing Inequality in Hong Kong that universal retirement support, minimum wage, and standard hours of work are of limited effect in shrinking the inequality gap. By comparing Hong Kong with Singapore, he points out that Hong Kong needs a new and long-term strategy on human resource policy. He recommends more investment in education, focusing on early education and immigration policy reforms to attract highly educated and skilled people to join the workforce. In analyzing what causes inequality, this book ties disparate issues together into a coherent framework, such as Hong Kong’s aging population, lack of investment in human capital, and family breakdowns. Rising divorce rates among low-income households have worsened the housing shortage, driving rents and property prices upwards. Housing problems created a bigger gap between those who own housing and have the ability to invest in their children’s human capital and those who cannot, thus adversely impacting intergenerational upward mobility. This is the third of Richard Wong’s collections of articles on society and economy in Hong Kong. Diversity and Occasional Anarchy and Hong Kong Land for Hong Kong People, published by Hong Kong University Press in 2013 and 2015 respectively, discuss growing economic and social contradictions in Hong Kong and current housing problems and their solutions.Less
When discussing inequality and poverty in Hong Kong, scholars and politicians often focus on the failures of government policy and push for an increase in social welfare. Richard Wong argues in Fixing Inequality in Hong Kong that universal retirement support, minimum wage, and standard hours of work are of limited effect in shrinking the inequality gap. By comparing Hong Kong with Singapore, he points out that Hong Kong needs a new and long-term strategy on human resource policy. He recommends more investment in education, focusing on early education and immigration policy reforms to attract highly educated and skilled people to join the workforce. In analyzing what causes inequality, this book ties disparate issues together into a coherent framework, such as Hong Kong’s aging population, lack of investment in human capital, and family breakdowns. Rising divorce rates among low-income households have worsened the housing shortage, driving rents and property prices upwards. Housing problems created a bigger gap between those who own housing and have the ability to invest in their children’s human capital and those who cannot, thus adversely impacting intergenerational upward mobility. This is the third of Richard Wong’s collections of articles on society and economy in Hong Kong. Diversity and Occasional Anarchy and Hong Kong Land for Hong Kong People, published by Hong Kong University Press in 2013 and 2015 respectively, discuss growing economic and social contradictions in Hong Kong and current housing problems and their solutions.
Annabel Annabel
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199573462
- eISBN:
- 9780191702112
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199573462.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Milton Studies
This chapter examines John Milton's first forays into polemic writing and his pamphlets advocating a radical change in the divorce laws. Of all his early works, the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce ...
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This chapter examines John Milton's first forays into polemic writing and his pamphlets advocating a radical change in the divorce laws. Of all his early works, the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce was the most shocking and the most inventive in its vocabulary because he was deeply involved in the issue. This chapter also attempts to explain how Milton arrived at the blissful arrangement of words to describe the world's first marriage.Less
This chapter examines John Milton's first forays into polemic writing and his pamphlets advocating a radical change in the divorce laws. Of all his early works, the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce was the most shocking and the most inventive in its vocabulary because he was deeply involved in the issue. This chapter also attempts to explain how Milton arrived at the blissful arrangement of words to describe the world's first marriage.
Lawrence Stone
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198202547
- eISBN:
- 9780191675393
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202547.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
This book offers a set of detailed case studies about how the break-up and dissolution of marriages was contrived before the first Divorce Act in 1857. Individuals in their own words explain their ...
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This book offers a set of detailed case studies about how the break-up and dissolution of marriages was contrived before the first Divorce Act in 1857. Individuals in their own words explain their actions and feelings about one another in dramatic court-room confrontations, while behind the scenes they were conducting secret negotiations, and offering massive bribes to witnesses either to commit perjury or to hold their tongues. These stories offer astonishing insights into many previously unknown aspects of marital life and marital breakdown in early modern England. They also provide sobering evidence of the huge gap between the enacted law and actual practice.Less
This book offers a set of detailed case studies about how the break-up and dissolution of marriages was contrived before the first Divorce Act in 1857. Individuals in their own words explain their actions and feelings about one another in dramatic court-room confrontations, while behind the scenes they were conducting secret negotiations, and offering massive bribes to witnesses either to commit perjury or to hold their tongues. These stories offer astonishing insights into many previously unknown aspects of marital life and marital breakdown in early modern England. They also provide sobering evidence of the huge gap between the enacted law and actual practice.
Yue Chim Richard Wong
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9789888390625
- eISBN:
- 9789888390373
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888390625.003.0012
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Public and Welfare
The contribution of recent immigrants to income dispersion has grown slightly. This reflects the fact that their numbers have been rising over time and that they tend to have a higher proportion of ...
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The contribution of recent immigrants to income dispersion has grown slightly. This reflects the fact that their numbers have been rising over time and that they tend to have a higher proportion of lower-productivity individuals. Immigration policy is of course another form of human capital investment policy. In a free society, the decision to emigrate is an individual right over which government should not exercise control. But in Hong Kong, government policy decides who is allowed to emigrate here. Family reunion cases are also related to human rights, although what constitutes family is subject to policy delineation. To sum up, then, the increase in individual income dispersion is primarily affected by education. Other factors contribute, too, but none is as significant. Education policy must therefore be at the center of efforts to tackle the rising inequality in individual incomes. This sets up the analysis understand what underlies the rise of household income dispersion over this period.Less
The contribution of recent immigrants to income dispersion has grown slightly. This reflects the fact that their numbers have been rising over time and that they tend to have a higher proportion of lower-productivity individuals. Immigration policy is of course another form of human capital investment policy. In a free society, the decision to emigrate is an individual right over which government should not exercise control. But in Hong Kong, government policy decides who is allowed to emigrate here. Family reunion cases are also related to human rights, although what constitutes family is subject to policy delineation. To sum up, then, the increase in individual income dispersion is primarily affected by education. Other factors contribute, too, but none is as significant. Education policy must therefore be at the center of efforts to tackle the rising inequality in individual incomes. This sets up the analysis understand what underlies the rise of household income dispersion over this period.
Jerry L. Walls
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199732296
- eISBN:
- 9780199918492
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199732296.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Although not a Roman Catholic, C. S. Lewis, the most popular Christian writer of the twentieth century, believed in purgatory. This is significant because his influence in Protestant and evangelical ...
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Although not a Roman Catholic, C. S. Lewis, the most popular Christian writer of the twentieth century, believed in purgatory. This is significant because his influence in Protestant and evangelical circles is perhaps especially strong. This chapter shows not only that Lewis believed in purgatory, but also that is integral to his theology of salvation. It explores how he understood the doctrine by examining his comments on Roman Catholic theologians John Fisher, Thomas More, and John Henry Newman. While he was quite critical of Fisher and More, he saw in Newman the recovery of the true substance and spirit of the doctrine. His theological fantasy The Great Divorce is also analyzed for its insights into Lewis's account of purgatory. It is shown that Lewis affirmed a sanctification model of purgatory that may be appealing to Protestants as well as Roman Catholics.Less
Although not a Roman Catholic, C. S. Lewis, the most popular Christian writer of the twentieth century, believed in purgatory. This is significant because his influence in Protestant and evangelical circles is perhaps especially strong. This chapter shows not only that Lewis believed in purgatory, but also that is integral to his theology of salvation. It explores how he understood the doctrine by examining his comments on Roman Catholic theologians John Fisher, Thomas More, and John Henry Newman. While he was quite critical of Fisher and More, he saw in Newman the recovery of the true substance and spirit of the doctrine. His theological fantasy The Great Divorce is also analyzed for its insights into Lewis's account of purgatory. It is shown that Lewis affirmed a sanctification model of purgatory that may be appealing to Protestants as well as Roman Catholics.
Lawrence Stone
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198226512
- eISBN:
- 9780191678646
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198226512.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, Social History
The first step forward towards reform was the setting up of the Royal Commission on Divorce in 1850, chaired by Lord Campbell. When Lord Chancellor Cranworth introduced the divorce bill into the ...
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The first step forward towards reform was the setting up of the Royal Commission on Divorce in 1850, chaired by Lord Campbell. When Lord Chancellor Cranworth introduced the divorce bill into the House of Lords in 1854, he specifically rejected the idea of changing the law to allow the wife to be able to sue for divorce on the grounds of her husband's adultery. The government had four objectives. The first was purely administrative, to concentrate all matrimonial litigation in a new secular High Court in London. The other three were to make full divorce more accessible to the upper middle class; to make judicial separation more expensive; and to make judicial separation and divorce inaccessible to the lower middle class and the poor. This hypocrisy about talk of equality of access for all was exposed by many critics during the course of the debates.Less
The first step forward towards reform was the setting up of the Royal Commission on Divorce in 1850, chaired by Lord Campbell. When Lord Chancellor Cranworth introduced the divorce bill into the House of Lords in 1854, he specifically rejected the idea of changing the law to allow the wife to be able to sue for divorce on the grounds of her husband's adultery. The government had four objectives. The first was purely administrative, to concentrate all matrimonial litigation in a new secular High Court in London. The other three were to make full divorce more accessible to the upper middle class; to make judicial separation more expensive; and to make judicial separation and divorce inaccessible to the lower middle class and the poor. This hypocrisy about talk of equality of access for all was exposed by many critics during the course of the debates.
Myra Strober
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262034388
- eISBN:
- 9780262332095
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262034388.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Public and Welfare
Kicking in the Doorprovides an insider’s view of how sexism operates—what it’s like to live it, study it, and fight it. For not only was I the first woman ever to hold a tenure-track faculty position ...
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Kicking in the Doorprovides an insider’s view of how sexism operates—what it’s like to live it, study it, and fight it. For not only was I the first woman ever to hold a tenure-track faculty position at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, I was also the founding director of Stanford’s Center for Research on Women (now the Clayman Institute for Gender Research). I have been not only a role model, but also an initiator of institutional change—as an author, leader of national and international feminist organizations, consultant to businesses, and expert witness in discrimination and divorce cases.
In addition to its major theme, kicking in the door, the memoir examines my efforts to combine a demanding career with raising a family, my search for a loving relationship after my divorce, my quest for a non-sexist spiritual home within Judaism, the crucial supportive role of my women friends and male allies, the difficulties I experienced trying to create a loving relationship with my sister, Alice Amsden, who was also a Ph.D. economist at a prestigious university, the development of feminist economics and the importance of forgiveness as one moves through life.Less
Kicking in the Doorprovides an insider’s view of how sexism operates—what it’s like to live it, study it, and fight it. For not only was I the first woman ever to hold a tenure-track faculty position at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, I was also the founding director of Stanford’s Center for Research on Women (now the Clayman Institute for Gender Research). I have been not only a role model, but also an initiator of institutional change—as an author, leader of national and international feminist organizations, consultant to businesses, and expert witness in discrimination and divorce cases.
In addition to its major theme, kicking in the door, the memoir examines my efforts to combine a demanding career with raising a family, my search for a loving relationship after my divorce, my quest for a non-sexist spiritual home within Judaism, the crucial supportive role of my women friends and male allies, the difficulties I experienced trying to create a loving relationship with my sister, Alice Amsden, who was also a Ph.D. economist at a prestigious university, the development of feminist economics and the importance of forgiveness as one moves through life.
Kathleen Riley
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199738410
- eISBN:
- 9780199932955
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199738410.003.0009
- Subject:
- Music, Dance, Popular
The premiere of Gay Divorce was given less than rave reviews by the critics and there were constant references to the absence of Adele. Cole Porter’s music, however, employed to great effect by ...
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The premiere of Gay Divorce was given less than rave reviews by the critics and there were constant references to the absence of Adele. Cole Porter’s music, however, employed to great effect by Fred’s interpretation of ‘Night and Day’, earned the show a respectable Broadway run. The number established Fred as a romantic actor who could advance the main plot through the medium of dance. After the show closed, and having resolved the strong opposition of his mother to his marriage, Fred married Phyllis Potter in July 1933. Immediately afterwards he began his film career with a cameo appearance as himself in the MGM picture Dancing Lady, followed by his first pairing with Ginger Rogers as support players in RKO’s Flying Down to Rio. Fred’s last stage appearance occurred when he returned to London with his new wife to honour his contract to star in Gay Divorce.Less
The premiere of Gay Divorce was given less than rave reviews by the critics and there were constant references to the absence of Adele. Cole Porter’s music, however, employed to great effect by Fred’s interpretation of ‘Night and Day’, earned the show a respectable Broadway run. The number established Fred as a romantic actor who could advance the main plot through the medium of dance. After the show closed, and having resolved the strong opposition of his mother to his marriage, Fred married Phyllis Potter in July 1933. Immediately afterwards he began his film career with a cameo appearance as himself in the MGM picture Dancing Lady, followed by his first pairing with Ginger Rogers as support players in RKO’s Flying Down to Rio. Fred’s last stage appearance occurred when he returned to London with his new wife to honour his contract to star in Gay Divorce.
Gary Murphy
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719097652
- eISBN:
- 9781526109712
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719097652.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
The aim of this book is to assess the quarter century of political competition in the Republic of Ireland from the time of the ending of recession of the 1980s up to the 2011 general election where ...
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The aim of this book is to assess the quarter century of political competition in the Republic of Ireland from the time of the ending of recession of the 1980s up to the 2011 general election where Ireland was ruled by the Troika and austerity was a by-word for both policy making and how many people lived their lives. This book assesses in a thematic way the forces which shaped the decisions that political elites in Ireland took over the course of this crucial quarter century in modern Irish life. It examines the nature of electoral competition in modern Ireland by focusing on a number of key themes that shaped the decisions of Irish politicians. These include the nature of coalition politics in Ireland; the payments to politicians by developers and businessmen that led to a number of tribunals of inquiry; the culture wars over divorce and abortion; the process of the economic collapse to boom and back to collapse cycle that effected the lives of so many Irish people; and the collapse of Ireland's natural party of government, Fianna Fáil. It analyses why Irish citizens have been comfortable in continuing to vote for traditional political elites despite the failures of the Irish state and explains why it has been so difficult for new parties to emerge.Less
The aim of this book is to assess the quarter century of political competition in the Republic of Ireland from the time of the ending of recession of the 1980s up to the 2011 general election where Ireland was ruled by the Troika and austerity was a by-word for both policy making and how many people lived their lives. This book assesses in a thematic way the forces which shaped the decisions that political elites in Ireland took over the course of this crucial quarter century in modern Irish life. It examines the nature of electoral competition in modern Ireland by focusing on a number of key themes that shaped the decisions of Irish politicians. These include the nature of coalition politics in Ireland; the payments to politicians by developers and businessmen that led to a number of tribunals of inquiry; the culture wars over divorce and abortion; the process of the economic collapse to boom and back to collapse cycle that effected the lives of so many Irish people; and the collapse of Ireland's natural party of government, Fianna Fáil. It analyses why Irish citizens have been comfortable in continuing to vote for traditional political elites despite the failures of the Irish state and explains why it has been so difficult for new parties to emerge.
Helen Glew
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719090271
- eISBN:
- 9781526104458
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719090271.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This chapter is an in-depth examination of the women whose lives did not fit neatly into the categories of ‘married’ or ‘single’. Instances of widowhood, divorce, separation, broken engagement, as ...
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This chapter is an in-depth examination of the women whose lives did not fit neatly into the categories of ‘married’ or ‘single’. Instances of widowhood, divorce, separation, broken engagement, as well as ill health of husbands, had to be legislated for within the strict confines of the marriage bar. Using personal testimony as a means to illustrate the complexities of these situations, this chapter traces the gradual and piecemeal evolution of a policy, with particular reference to the Post Office (the Civil Service department which employed the largest number of women) and the LCC. As a whole, the chapter reveals the very real impact that the marriage bar could have on women in difficult circumstances and how highly gendered the practice was.Less
This chapter is an in-depth examination of the women whose lives did not fit neatly into the categories of ‘married’ or ‘single’. Instances of widowhood, divorce, separation, broken engagement, as well as ill health of husbands, had to be legislated for within the strict confines of the marriage bar. Using personal testimony as a means to illustrate the complexities of these situations, this chapter traces the gradual and piecemeal evolution of a policy, with particular reference to the Post Office (the Civil Service department which employed the largest number of women) and the LCC. As a whole, the chapter reveals the very real impact that the marriage bar could have on women in difficult circumstances and how highly gendered the practice was.
Lord Denning
- Published in print:
- 1980
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780406176080
- eISBN:
- 9780191705113
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780406176080.003.0027
- Subject:
- Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law
This chapter discusses how the author, Lord Denning, became a Divorce Judge. Before he became a judge, he had never undertaken a divorce case. Divorce work was considered inferior and unpleasant at ...
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This chapter discusses how the author, Lord Denning, became a Divorce Judge. Before he became a judge, he had never undertaken a divorce case. Divorce work was considered inferior and unpleasant at that time and the best juniors did not touch it. When he was assigned to the Divorce Division, the author sat in London during the first few months. Early in the war arrangements had been made for the courts to be evacuated to Oxford; but he never left the Strand. He disliked divorce work. It was sordid in the extreme and everything depended on proof of a matrimonial. He only worked in divorce for eighteen months. Finally, Lord Jowitt, the Lord Chancellor, transfered him to the King's Bench Division. But later, Lord Jowitt called him back from Exeter to chair a Committee on the administration of the law of Divorce.Less
This chapter discusses how the author, Lord Denning, became a Divorce Judge. Before he became a judge, he had never undertaken a divorce case. Divorce work was considered inferior and unpleasant at that time and the best juniors did not touch it. When he was assigned to the Divorce Division, the author sat in London during the first few months. Early in the war arrangements had been made for the courts to be evacuated to Oxford; but he never left the Strand. He disliked divorce work. It was sordid in the extreme and everything depended on proof of a matrimonial. He only worked in divorce for eighteen months. Finally, Lord Jowitt, the Lord Chancellor, transfered him to the King's Bench Division. But later, Lord Jowitt called him back from Exeter to chair a Committee on the administration of the law of Divorce.
Ted Ownby
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469647005
- eISBN:
- 9781469647029
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469647005.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
When Tammy Wynette sang "D-I-V-O-R-C-E," she famously said she "spelled out the hurtin' words" to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this innovative work, Ted Ownby considers how a wide ...
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When Tammy Wynette sang "D-I-V-O-R-C-E," she famously said she "spelled out the hurtin' words" to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this innovative work, Ted Ownby considers how a wide range of writers, thinkers, activists, and others defined family problems in the twentieth-century American South. Ownby shows that it was common for both African Americans and whites to discuss family life in terms of crisis, but they reached very different conclusions about causes and solutions. In the civil rights period, many embraced an ideal of Christian brotherhood as a way of transcending divisions. Opponents of civil rights denounced "brotherhoodism" as a movement that undercut parental and religious authority. Others, especially in the African American community, rejected the idea of family crisis altogether, working to redefine family adaptability as a source of strength. Rather than attempting to define the experience of an archetypal "southern family," Ownby looks broadly at contexts such as political and religious debates about divorce and family values, southern rock music, autobiographies, and more to reveal how people in the South used the concept of the family as a proxy for imagining a better future or happier past.Less
When Tammy Wynette sang "D-I-V-O-R-C-E," she famously said she "spelled out the hurtin' words" to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this innovative work, Ted Ownby considers how a wide range of writers, thinkers, activists, and others defined family problems in the twentieth-century American South. Ownby shows that it was common for both African Americans and whites to discuss family life in terms of crisis, but they reached very different conclusions about causes and solutions. In the civil rights period, many embraced an ideal of Christian brotherhood as a way of transcending divisions. Opponents of civil rights denounced "brotherhoodism" as a movement that undercut parental and religious authority. Others, especially in the African American community, rejected the idea of family crisis altogether, working to redefine family adaptability as a source of strength. Rather than attempting to define the experience of an archetypal "southern family," Ownby looks broadly at contexts such as political and religious debates about divorce and family values, southern rock music, autobiographies, and more to reveal how people in the South used the concept of the family as a proxy for imagining a better future or happier past.
Allison Dorothy Fredette
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813179155
- eISBN:
- 9780813179162
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813179155.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
In the antebellum era, border southerners increasingly made use of contractualism in their divorce petitions. Contractualism, or the growing understanding that marriage was not a permanent, ...
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In the antebellum era, border southerners increasingly made use of contractualism in their divorce petitions. Contractualism, or the growing understanding that marriage was not a permanent, sacramental institution but a contractual one with rules, procedures, and escape clauses, allowed more men and women to file for divorce and to use a variety of causes to explain their decision. It was also a dangerous ideal in a society in which so many residents found themselves permanently bound to masters with no legal recourse or escape. Nonetheless, in Kentucky, western Virginia, and Appalachian Virginia, unhappy spouses found an outlet in the local courts and through their use, or manipulation, of legal statutes.Less
In the antebellum era, border southerners increasingly made use of contractualism in their divorce petitions. Contractualism, or the growing understanding that marriage was not a permanent, sacramental institution but a contractual one with rules, procedures, and escape clauses, allowed more men and women to file for divorce and to use a variety of causes to explain their decision. It was also a dangerous ideal in a society in which so many residents found themselves permanently bound to masters with no legal recourse or escape. Nonetheless, in Kentucky, western Virginia, and Appalachian Virginia, unhappy spouses found an outlet in the local courts and through their use, or manipulation, of legal statutes.
Allison Dorothy Fredette
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813179155
- eISBN:
- 9780813179162
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813179155.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
In the antebellum era, eastern Virginians embraced a definitive and harsh understanding of divorce and its role in society. There, few filed for divorce, most likely knowing that local courts would ...
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In the antebellum era, eastern Virginians embraced a definitive and harsh understanding of divorce and its role in society. There, few filed for divorce, most likely knowing that local courts would be unsympathetic even if they dared risk social disapproval. Those who did choose this path shaped their narratives to meet the community’s understanding of gender and marriage. Petitioners framed themselves as long-suffering spouses forced to choose this most undesirable option. Their cases also reflected a greater acceptance of gender hierarchy in the home, especially through their expectation of wifely obedience.Less
In the antebellum era, eastern Virginians embraced a definitive and harsh understanding of divorce and its role in society. There, few filed for divorce, most likely knowing that local courts would be unsympathetic even if they dared risk social disapproval. Those who did choose this path shaped their narratives to meet the community’s understanding of gender and marriage. Petitioners framed themselves as long-suffering spouses forced to choose this most undesirable option. Their cases also reflected a greater acceptance of gender hierarchy in the home, especially through their expectation of wifely obedience.
Allison Dorothy Fredette
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813179155
- eISBN:
- 9780813179162
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813179155.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
This chapter explores the impact of the Civil War on divorce in the postwar period. As in other parts of the United States, the Civil War had a profound impact on the psyche and emotions of the ...
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This chapter explores the impact of the Civil War on divorce in the postwar period. As in other parts of the United States, the Civil War had a profound impact on the psyche and emotions of the people involved, and years of distance and separation and battlefield trauma led to the breakdown of many relationships. The situation in Kentucky and West Virginia was exacerbated by two particular circumstances: the establishment of friendlier divorce laws in the antebellum era and the embrace of domesticity and mutuality before and during the conflict. Hastily arranged marriages and the flexibility to more easily end those relationships when they failed, led to a rash of divorces in the border South in the years following the war.Less
This chapter explores the impact of the Civil War on divorce in the postwar period. As in other parts of the United States, the Civil War had a profound impact on the psyche and emotions of the people involved, and years of distance and separation and battlefield trauma led to the breakdown of many relationships. The situation in Kentucky and West Virginia was exacerbated by two particular circumstances: the establishment of friendlier divorce laws in the antebellum era and the embrace of domesticity and mutuality before and during the conflict. Hastily arranged marriages and the flexibility to more easily end those relationships when they failed, led to a rash of divorces in the border South in the years following the war.
Allison Dorothy Fredette
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813179155
- eISBN:
- 9780813179162
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813179155.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
This chapter addresses the impact of emancipation on white marriages in Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia during the first eight years following the Civil War, arguing that black emancipation’s ...
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This chapter addresses the impact of emancipation on white marriages in Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia during the first eight years following the Civil War, arguing that black emancipation’s effect on white border gender roles was muted by the region’s hybrid culture and antebellum experiences. More specifically, postbellum Kentuckians’ and West Virginians’ rhetoric and motivations for separation remained consistent with their antebellum cases, reflecting a continued desire for mutuality and individualism in their relationships, while Virginians decried the breakdown of racial mastery, connected it with potential disruptions to their hierarchical households, and demanded obedience and loyalty from both former slaves and spouses.Less
This chapter addresses the impact of emancipation on white marriages in Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia during the first eight years following the Civil War, arguing that black emancipation’s effect on white border gender roles was muted by the region’s hybrid culture and antebellum experiences. More specifically, postbellum Kentuckians’ and West Virginians’ rhetoric and motivations for separation remained consistent with their antebellum cases, reflecting a continued desire for mutuality and individualism in their relationships, while Virginians decried the breakdown of racial mastery, connected it with potential disruptions to their hierarchical households, and demanded obedience and loyalty from both former slaves and spouses.
