Heidi R. M. Pauwels
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195369908
- eISBN:
- 9780199871322
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195369908.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Hinduism
Chapter 2 traces how divine marriages are arranged in classical, medieval and televised versions of the stories, and how such scenarios are echoed in popular movies. Sītā's Svayamvara is contrasted ...
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Chapter 2 traces how divine marriages are arranged in classical, medieval and televised versions of the stories, and how such scenarios are echoed in popular movies. Sītā's Svayamvara is contrasted with Krishna's first consort, Rukmini's elopement. Notwithstanding the name, Sītā's Svayamvara is not really a self‐choice marriage in any of the sources. The television version is most emphatic in stressing that it is not personal feelings but rather considerations of family that should prevail in arranging a marriage. The movies nearly unequivocally follow suit. Rukmini's elopement scenario seems viable to some extent in the classical version, though it comes at a substantial cost for the woman who has to break all bonds with her parental kin. The medieval version downplays that cost. The televised version does not dwell on this either, and it pays lip service to the priority of women's choice in arranging the marriage, but gives her little voice. By contrast, the films of the nineties are emphatic in denying the validity of elopement. Whatever the divine models may say, in films parental authority keeps love in check. Movies discussed are Hum aapke hain koun..!, Maine Pyar kiya, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Dulhan hum le jayenge, Pardes, and Ram teri Ganga maili. Less
Chapter 2 traces how divine marriages are arranged in classical, medieval and televised versions of the stories, and how such scenarios are echoed in popular movies. Sītā's Svayamvara is contrasted with Krishna's first consort, Rukmini's elopement. Notwithstanding the name, Sītā's Svayamvara is not really a self‐choice marriage in any of the sources. The television version is most emphatic in stressing that it is not personal feelings but rather considerations of family that should prevail in arranging a marriage. The movies nearly unequivocally follow suit. Rukmini's elopement scenario seems viable to some extent in the classical version, though it comes at a substantial cost for the woman who has to break all bonds with her parental kin. The medieval version downplays that cost. The televised version does not dwell on this either, and it pays lip service to the priority of women's choice in arranging the marriage, but gives her little voice. By contrast, the films of the nineties are emphatic in denying the validity of elopement. Whatever the divine models may say, in films parental authority keeps love in check. Movies discussed are Hum aapke hain koun..!, Maine Pyar kiya, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Dulhan hum le jayenge, Pardes, and Ram teri Ganga maili.
Indraneel Dasgupta, Pushkar Maitra, and Diganta Mukherjee
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198073970
- eISBN:
- 9780199081615
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198073970.003.0020
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Microeconomics
In most parts of South Asia, patrilocal marriages and cultural norms indicate that the husband's family stands to retain a major part of any additional gain generated by an educated woman. This means ...
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In most parts of South Asia, patrilocal marriages and cultural norms indicate that the husband's family stands to retain a major part of any additional gain generated by an educated woman. This means that men are expected to have a strong incentive to prefer educated women as brides, especially given the significant returns to women's schooling. Parents of educated women should face lower dowry demands, and thus motivate them to educate daughters. However, the persistence of low levels of female education and available micro evidence on dowry payments both imply that such incentives are neither strong nor generalized. This chapter explores this apparent market failure by addressing the consequences of arranged marriage in India and discussing co-residence and female education.Less
In most parts of South Asia, patrilocal marriages and cultural norms indicate that the husband's family stands to retain a major part of any additional gain generated by an educated woman. This means that men are expected to have a strong incentive to prefer educated women as brides, especially given the significant returns to women's schooling. Parents of educated women should face lower dowry demands, and thus motivate them to educate daughters. However, the persistence of low levels of female education and available micro evidence on dowry payments both imply that such incentives are neither strong nor generalized. This chapter explores this apparent market failure by addressing the consequences of arranged marriage in India and discussing co-residence and female education.
Teresa Platz Robinson
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780198099437
- eISBN:
- 9780199083008
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198099437.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
Chapter 6 discusses the practices of dating, sex, and marriage amongst the café culture crowd. Though marriage continued to be the norm and a family matter, the young generation had found ways of ...
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Chapter 6 discusses the practices of dating, sex, and marriage amongst the café culture crowd. Though marriage continued to be the norm and a family matter, the young generation had found ways of negotiating the when, how and who–not least with previous generations paving the way. Romantic love, dating, courtship, personal happiness, compatibility, and the expression of individual preferences were not only more acceptable but had found their way into arranged marriages. There was a move observable from patriarchal—or at least gerontocratic— arrangements, towards more negotiated practices which included the children in decision-making and promoted equality.Less
Chapter 6 discusses the practices of dating, sex, and marriage amongst the café culture crowd. Though marriage continued to be the norm and a family matter, the young generation had found ways of negotiating the when, how and who–not least with previous generations paving the way. Romantic love, dating, courtship, personal happiness, compatibility, and the expression of individual preferences were not only more acceptable but had found their way into arranged marriages. There was a move observable from patriarchal—or at least gerontocratic— arrangements, towards more negotiated practices which included the children in decision-making and promoted equality.
Shilpa Davé
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479809769
- eISBN:
- 9781479893331
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479809769.003.0011
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter looks at the manner in which interracial relationships are rendered in media during a period defined by post-racial identity formations. It examines episodes from television shows that ...
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This chapter looks at the manner in which interracial relationships are rendered in media during a period defined by post-racial identity formations. It examines episodes from television shows that feature Indian weddings such as The Simpsons (1989–), The Office (2005–13), and Miss Match (2003–4) to argue that twenty-first-century portrayals of arranged marriages on television provides a narrative that dissolves rather than emphasizes the foreign nature of the arrangement process in American culture, and instead shows a compatibility between American and Indian ideas of matchmaking. In a post-racial world, the phrase “arranged marriage” is a racial and cultural marker of South Asian and particularly Indian culture, which makes it an appropriate and provocative topic of discussion. An examination of how racial narratives operate in a supposed post-racial world highlights the intersection of racial and gendered narratives about romance and marriage.Less
This chapter looks at the manner in which interracial relationships are rendered in media during a period defined by post-racial identity formations. It examines episodes from television shows that feature Indian weddings such as The Simpsons (1989–), The Office (2005–13), and Miss Match (2003–4) to argue that twenty-first-century portrayals of arranged marriages on television provides a narrative that dissolves rather than emphasizes the foreign nature of the arrangement process in American culture, and instead shows a compatibility between American and Indian ideas of matchmaking. In a post-racial world, the phrase “arranged marriage” is a racial and cultural marker of South Asian and particularly Indian culture, which makes it an appropriate and provocative topic of discussion. An examination of how racial narratives operate in a supposed post-racial world highlights the intersection of racial and gendered narratives about romance and marriage.
Neil Diamant
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520217201
- eISBN:
- 9780520922389
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520217201.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
In 1950, China's new Communist government enacted a Marriage Law to allow free choice in marriage and easier access to divorce. Prohibiting arranged marriages, concubinage, and bigamy, it was one of ...
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In 1950, China's new Communist government enacted a Marriage Law to allow free choice in marriage and easier access to divorce. Prohibiting arranged marriages, concubinage, and bigamy, it was one of the most dramatic efforts ever by a state to change marital and family relationships. In this comprehensive study of the effects of that law, the text draws on newly opened urban and rural archival sources to offer a detailed analysis of how the law was interpreted and implemented throughout the country. In sharp contrast to previous studies of the Marriage Law, which have argued that it had little effect in rural areas, this book argues that the law reshaped marriage and family relationships in significant—but often unintended—ways throughout the Maoist period. The book's evidence reveals a confused and often conflicted state apparatus, as well as cases of Chinese men and women taking advantage of the law to justify multiple sexual encounters, to marry for beauty, to demand expensive gifts for engagement, and to divorce on multiple occasions. Moreover, the text finds, those who were best placed to use the law's more liberal provisions were not well-educated urbanites but rather illiterate peasant women who had never heard of sexual equality; and it was poor men, not women, who were those most betrayed by the peasant-based revolution.Less
In 1950, China's new Communist government enacted a Marriage Law to allow free choice in marriage and easier access to divorce. Prohibiting arranged marriages, concubinage, and bigamy, it was one of the most dramatic efforts ever by a state to change marital and family relationships. In this comprehensive study of the effects of that law, the text draws on newly opened urban and rural archival sources to offer a detailed analysis of how the law was interpreted and implemented throughout the country. In sharp contrast to previous studies of the Marriage Law, which have argued that it had little effect in rural areas, this book argues that the law reshaped marriage and family relationships in significant—but often unintended—ways throughout the Maoist period. The book's evidence reveals a confused and often conflicted state apparatus, as well as cases of Chinese men and women taking advantage of the law to justify multiple sexual encounters, to marry for beauty, to demand expensive gifts for engagement, and to divorce on multiple occasions. Moreover, the text finds, those who were best placed to use the law's more liberal provisions were not well-educated urbanites but rather illiterate peasant women who had never heard of sexual equality; and it was poor men, not women, who were those most betrayed by the peasant-based revolution.
Elisabeth van Houts
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- March 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198798897
- eISBN:
- 9780191839542
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198798897.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History, Social History
This chapter traces the process of who arranged marriages and how they were planned, with particular attention to the role of parents and kin, kings and lords, and initiatives of the couples ...
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This chapter traces the process of who arranged marriages and how they were planned, with particular attention to the role of parents and kin, kings and lords, and initiatives of the couples themselves. In the period under discussion, marital arrangements were made by parents, kin, and lords with minimal input from the couple. In fact, the legality of marriage was subject to parental consent, not the couple’s. In the course of the eleventh and twelfth centuries evidence emerged that suggests a development in thinking amongst the laity and clergy about what established a valid union. In narrative sources, such as chronicles, hagiography, and fiction, demands of young men and women for self-determination with respect to marriage were recorded. There seems to have been a gendered aspect to these emerging voices with more women than men, mostly from elite or well-to-do backgrounds, demanding a say in the choice of marriage partner.Less
This chapter traces the process of who arranged marriages and how they were planned, with particular attention to the role of parents and kin, kings and lords, and initiatives of the couples themselves. In the period under discussion, marital arrangements were made by parents, kin, and lords with minimal input from the couple. In fact, the legality of marriage was subject to parental consent, not the couple’s. In the course of the eleventh and twelfth centuries evidence emerged that suggests a development in thinking amongst the laity and clergy about what established a valid union. In narrative sources, such as chronicles, hagiography, and fiction, demands of young men and women for self-determination with respect to marriage were recorded. There seems to have been a gendered aspect to these emerging voices with more women than men, mostly from elite or well-to-do backgrounds, demanding a say in the choice of marriage partner.
Sarah Wobick-Segev
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781503605145
- eISBN:
- 9781503606548
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9781503605145.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
The second chapter examines the transition from arranged to companionate marriages among Ashkenazic Jews in the three cities and, in particular, as a reaction to the expanding market of leisure ...
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The second chapter examines the transition from arranged to companionate marriages among Ashkenazic Jews in the three cities and, in particular, as a reaction to the expanding market of leisure spaces in the process. The formation of the contemporary Jewish family underwent a dramatic shift as the notions of individual autonomy came to supersede the predominant influence of the extended family. In the process, the changing needs and expectations of the Jewish family imposed new expectations on the community as a whole regarding how and where the Jewish family was to be formed.Less
The second chapter examines the transition from arranged to companionate marriages among Ashkenazic Jews in the three cities and, in particular, as a reaction to the expanding market of leisure spaces in the process. The formation of the contemporary Jewish family underwent a dramatic shift as the notions of individual autonomy came to supersede the predominant influence of the extended family. In the process, the changing needs and expectations of the Jewish family imposed new expectations on the community as a whole regarding how and where the Jewish family was to be formed.
Susan Groag Bell
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520234109
- eISBN:
- 9780520928787
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520234109.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
Like a particularly good detective story, this richly textured book follows tantalizing clues in its hunt for a group of missing artistic masterpieces. It opens a new window on the lives of ...
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Like a particularly good detective story, this richly textured book follows tantalizing clues in its hunt for a group of missing artistic masterpieces. It opens a new window on the lives of noblewomen in the Renaissance, the brilliantly colored tapestries that were the ultimate artistic luxury of the day, and the popular and influential fourteenth-century writer Christine de Pizan. The tapestries around which this story revolves are linked to de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies, originally published 600 years ago in 1405. The book is aT tribute to women that honors 200 female warriors, scientists, queens, philosophers, and builders of cities. Though twenty-five manuscripts of the City of Ladies still exist, references to tapestries based on the book are elusive. The book takes us along as it tracks down records of six sets of tapestries whose owners included Elizabeth I of England; Margaret of Austria; and Anne of Brittany, Queen of France. It examines the intriguing details of these women's lives—their arranged marriages, their power, their affairs of state—asking what interest they had in owning these particular tapestries. Could the tapestries have represented their thinking? As it reveals the historical, linguistic, and cultural aspects of this unique story, the book also gives a fascinating account of medieval and early-Renaissance tapestry production and of de Pizan's remarkable life and legacy.Less
Like a particularly good detective story, this richly textured book follows tantalizing clues in its hunt for a group of missing artistic masterpieces. It opens a new window on the lives of noblewomen in the Renaissance, the brilliantly colored tapestries that were the ultimate artistic luxury of the day, and the popular and influential fourteenth-century writer Christine de Pizan. The tapestries around which this story revolves are linked to de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies, originally published 600 years ago in 1405. The book is aT tribute to women that honors 200 female warriors, scientists, queens, philosophers, and builders of cities. Though twenty-five manuscripts of the City of Ladies still exist, references to tapestries based on the book are elusive. The book takes us along as it tracks down records of six sets of tapestries whose owners included Elizabeth I of England; Margaret of Austria; and Anne of Brittany, Queen of France. It examines the intriguing details of these women's lives—their arranged marriages, their power, their affairs of state—asking what interest they had in owning these particular tapestries. Could the tapestries have represented their thinking? As it reveals the historical, linguistic, and cultural aspects of this unique story, the book also gives a fascinating account of medieval and early-Renaissance tapestry production and of de Pizan's remarkable life and legacy.
Rachel Manekin
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780691194936
- eISBN:
- 9780691207094
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691194936.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This book investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In extreme ...
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This book investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In extreme cases, hundreds of these women sought refuge in a Kraków convent, where many converted to Catholicism. Those who stayed home often remained Jewish in name only. The book reconstructs the stories of three Jewish women runaways and reveals their struggles and innermost convictions. Unlike Orthodox Jewish boys, who attended “cheders,” traditional schools where only Jewish subjects were taught, Orthodox Jewish girls were sent to Polish primary schools. When the time came for them to marry, many young women rebelled against the marriages arranged by their parents, with some wishing to pursue secondary and university education. After World War I, the crisis of the rebellious daughters in Kraków spurred the introduction of formal religious education for young Orthodox Jewish women in Poland, which later developed into a worldwide educational movement. The book chronicles the belated Orthodox response and argues that these educational innovations not only kept Orthodox Jewish women within the fold but also foreclosed their opportunities for higher education. Exploring the estrangement of young Jewish women from traditional Judaism in Habsburg Galicia at the turn of the twentieth century, the book brings to light a forgotten yet significant episode in Eastern European history.Less
This book investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their Orthodox, mostly Hasidic, homes in Western Galicia (now Poland) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In extreme cases, hundreds of these women sought refuge in a Kraków convent, where many converted to Catholicism. Those who stayed home often remained Jewish in name only. The book reconstructs the stories of three Jewish women runaways and reveals their struggles and innermost convictions. Unlike Orthodox Jewish boys, who attended “cheders,” traditional schools where only Jewish subjects were taught, Orthodox Jewish girls were sent to Polish primary schools. When the time came for them to marry, many young women rebelled against the marriages arranged by their parents, with some wishing to pursue secondary and university education. After World War I, the crisis of the rebellious daughters in Kraków spurred the introduction of formal religious education for young Orthodox Jewish women in Poland, which later developed into a worldwide educational movement. The book chronicles the belated Orthodox response and argues that these educational innovations not only kept Orthodox Jewish women within the fold but also foreclosed their opportunities for higher education. Exploring the estrangement of young Jewish women from traditional Judaism in Habsburg Galicia at the turn of the twentieth century, the book brings to light a forgotten yet significant episode in Eastern European history.
Geoff Harkness
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781479889075
- eISBN:
- 9781479809547
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479889075.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Middle Eastern Politics
This chapter considers the impact of sweeping socioeconomic transformation on dating, sex, and marriage. Public interactions between men and women, including married couples, are heavily restricted ...
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This chapter considers the impact of sweeping socioeconomic transformation on dating, sex, and marriage. Public interactions between men and women, including married couples, are heavily restricted in Qatar. This doesn’t stop young adults from hooking up surreptitiously, or gay and lesbian culture, which is illegal but as prevalent in Doha as anywhere else. The prohibitions related to dating contribute to high rates of marriage between first and second cousins, pairings that are typically arranged by families. The persistence of consanguinity in Qatar is partly explained by the historical connections between families and tribes in the Gulf. During the Bedouin era, weddings were modest events that reflected the dire circumstances of that time; today, these events are opulent fairy tales from Disney movies, with families competing to throw the “wedding of the year.” These dynamics are shaped by the ubiquity of Western popular culture, which venerates romantic love, and changing expectations about marriage. Drawing on elements of modern traditionalism, Qataris utilize an array of rhetorical and behavioral strategies that situate arranged, inner-family marriages as in step with contemporary ideals about matrimony.Less
This chapter considers the impact of sweeping socioeconomic transformation on dating, sex, and marriage. Public interactions between men and women, including married couples, are heavily restricted in Qatar. This doesn’t stop young adults from hooking up surreptitiously, or gay and lesbian culture, which is illegal but as prevalent in Doha as anywhere else. The prohibitions related to dating contribute to high rates of marriage between first and second cousins, pairings that are typically arranged by families. The persistence of consanguinity in Qatar is partly explained by the historical connections between families and tribes in the Gulf. During the Bedouin era, weddings were modest events that reflected the dire circumstances of that time; today, these events are opulent fairy tales from Disney movies, with families competing to throw the “wedding of the year.” These dynamics are shaped by the ubiquity of Western popular culture, which venerates romantic love, and changing expectations about marriage. Drawing on elements of modern traditionalism, Qataris utilize an array of rhetorical and behavioral strategies that situate arranged, inner-family marriages as in step with contemporary ideals about matrimony.
Samita Sen and Nilanjana Sengupta
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199461165
- eISBN:
- 9780199087006
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199461165.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter focuses on double domesticity—workers do domestic work for a living and also have to do the reproductive work for their own families. Many of these women spend their entire waking hours ...
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This chapter focuses on double domesticity—workers do domestic work for a living and also have to do the reproductive work for their own families. Many of these women spend their entire waking hours in domestic jobs—for wages or as chores. How do the women perceive this relentless cycle of domestic work that dominates their lives? How is their own reproductive work structured? How do they understand their roles as wife and mother and how are these constructed differently from that of their employers? The chapter discusses marriage, wifehood, and motherhood with a special focus on what the workers emphasize most: education of their children, which is their only promise of intergenerational mobility.Less
This chapter focuses on double domesticity—workers do domestic work for a living and also have to do the reproductive work for their own families. Many of these women spend their entire waking hours in domestic jobs—for wages or as chores. How do the women perceive this relentless cycle of domestic work that dominates their lives? How is their own reproductive work structured? How do they understand their roles as wife and mother and how are these constructed differently from that of their employers? The chapter discusses marriage, wifehood, and motherhood with a special focus on what the workers emphasize most: education of their children, which is their only promise of intergenerational mobility.
Daniela Berghahn
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780748642908
- eISBN:
- 9780748689088
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748642908.003.0006
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Why do weddings proliferate in diasporic family films and what it is about the big fat diasporic wedding that captures the imagination of diverse audiences? After providing a succinct survey of the ...
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Why do weddings proliferate in diasporic family films and what it is about the big fat diasporic wedding that captures the imagination of diverse audiences? After providing a succinct survey of the wedding theme in its many variations, ranging from films about arranged marriage, sham weddings and interethnic romance, the chapter explores diasporic wedding films in terms of their generic characteristics. Wedding films emerged during the 1990s as an identifiable strand of the romantic comedy in mainstream cinema in the West and, as a variation of the romantic family drama, in Bollywood. Four Weddings and a Funeral and Hum Aapke Hain Koun (Can You Name Our Relationship?) are widely cited as the foundational texts, while My Big Fat Greek Wedding established the generic paradigm of the diasporic wedding film. The overriding concern of this chapter is how Evet, I Do!, (Evet, ich will!), Monsoon Wedding and Bride and Prejudice hybridise the genres of melodrama, romantic comedy and the wedding film through a distinctive diasporic aesthetics.Less
Why do weddings proliferate in diasporic family films and what it is about the big fat diasporic wedding that captures the imagination of diverse audiences? After providing a succinct survey of the wedding theme in its many variations, ranging from films about arranged marriage, sham weddings and interethnic romance, the chapter explores diasporic wedding films in terms of their generic characteristics. Wedding films emerged during the 1990s as an identifiable strand of the romantic comedy in mainstream cinema in the West and, as a variation of the romantic family drama, in Bollywood. Four Weddings and a Funeral and Hum Aapke Hain Koun (Can You Name Our Relationship?) are widely cited as the foundational texts, while My Big Fat Greek Wedding established the generic paradigm of the diasporic wedding film. The overriding concern of this chapter is how Evet, I Do!, (Evet, ich will!), Monsoon Wedding and Bride and Prejudice hybridise the genres of melodrama, romantic comedy and the wedding film through a distinctive diasporic aesthetics.
David Greenberg and Eliezer Witztum
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300071917
- eISBN:
- 9780300131994
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300071917.003.0004
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter explores the union of Western psychiatry and the ultra-orthodox community, based on the concept of shidduch, the arranged matrimonial match. The groom is a composite of two male Israeli ...
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This chapter explores the union of Western psychiatry and the ultra-orthodox community, based on the concept of shidduch, the arranged matrimonial match. The groom is a composite of two male Israeli psychiatrists who work closely with the ultra-orthodox Jewish population. Both are part of a medical tradition which takes for granted that everything the therapist observes in or is told by patients can be subsumed within its omniscient structure. Yet it is shown that providing clinical care to the ultra-orthodox community—the bride—is a matter of considerable complexity.Less
This chapter explores the union of Western psychiatry and the ultra-orthodox community, based on the concept of shidduch, the arranged matrimonial match. The groom is a composite of two male Israeli psychiatrists who work closely with the ultra-orthodox Jewish population. Both are part of a medical tradition which takes for granted that everything the therapist observes in or is told by patients can be subsumed within its omniscient structure. Yet it is shown that providing clinical care to the ultra-orthodox community—the bride—is a matter of considerable complexity.
Lara Vetter
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813054568
- eISBN:
- 9780813053219
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813054568.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter examines H.D.’s scrutiny of the European custom of arranged monarchial marriage as a strategy to consolidate imperial power, and the tacit parallels she draws between Italian and British ...
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This chapter examines H.D.’s scrutiny of the European custom of arranged monarchial marriage as a strategy to consolidate imperial power, and the tacit parallels she draws between Italian and British empire-building. Half verse, half prose, this hybrid text explores Shakespeare and his Elizabethan and Jacobean contemporaries and ancestors against a perilous landscape of unscrupulous monarchs, constant warfare, and imperial conquest. It is deeply concerned with the unsettling abuses of power by the English monarchy and the origins of the British Empire, positioning Shakespeare as plagiarist and plunderer.Less
This chapter examines H.D.’s scrutiny of the European custom of arranged monarchial marriage as a strategy to consolidate imperial power, and the tacit parallels she draws between Italian and British empire-building. Half verse, half prose, this hybrid text explores Shakespeare and his Elizabethan and Jacobean contemporaries and ancestors against a perilous landscape of unscrupulous monarchs, constant warfare, and imperial conquest. It is deeply concerned with the unsettling abuses of power by the English monarchy and the origins of the British Empire, positioning Shakespeare as plagiarist and plunderer.
Peter Robb
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198075127
- eISBN:
- 9780199080878
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198075127.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This chapter presents the details of Sarah Blechynden's life. Her father, Richard Blechynden, was displeased when she did not meet him in 1812 and 1813. He declared that she would ‘bitterly regret ...
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This chapter presents the details of Sarah Blechynden's life. Her father, Richard Blechynden, was displeased when she did not meet him in 1812 and 1813. He declared that she would ‘bitterly regret this undutifulness’. Sarah eventually moved to India in 1815. However, she rebelled more openly at her situation and her father's attitude. By late 1818, she had a new suitor, Lieutenant Foster Fyans. It was not obvious whether Richard Blechynden's prejudice against Fyans was rational or that the pain it produced was worthwhile, given its effect on the Blechynden family and quite possibly on Fyans himself. For her part, after her father's death, Sarah returned to England and married Robert Graham on 4 June 1828. After Richard Blechynden's death, the Blechynden line was ‘re-legitimized’ and ‘re-Anglicized’.Less
This chapter presents the details of Sarah Blechynden's life. Her father, Richard Blechynden, was displeased when she did not meet him in 1812 and 1813. He declared that she would ‘bitterly regret this undutifulness’. Sarah eventually moved to India in 1815. However, she rebelled more openly at her situation and her father's attitude. By late 1818, she had a new suitor, Lieutenant Foster Fyans. It was not obvious whether Richard Blechynden's prejudice against Fyans was rational or that the pain it produced was worthwhile, given its effect on the Blechynden family and quite possibly on Fyans himself. For her part, after her father's death, Sarah returned to England and married Robert Graham on 4 June 1828. After Richard Blechynden's death, the Blechynden line was ‘re-legitimized’ and ‘re-Anglicized’.
Wu Jingzhong
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520219885
- eISBN:
- 9780520935259
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520219885.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter draws entirely on Yi sources—in this case, Nuosu-language versions of several Yi classics that have recently been edited and published by minzu publishing houses—to reconstruct the ...
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This chapter draws entirely on Yi sources—in this case, Nuosu-language versions of several Yi classics that have recently been edited and published by minzu publishing houses—to reconstruct the possible origins and much of the cultural history of Liangshan before the Yuan dynasty. It finds Nuosu-language sources to be particularly rich in descriptions of the kinship system, including strategies and behaviors people employ when arranging marriages among clans; ceremonies being performed by bima in Liangshan today; and of the importance of certain subsistence pursuits, such as hunting, of certain crops, and, particularly, of warfare and military culture.Less
This chapter draws entirely on Yi sources—in this case, Nuosu-language versions of several Yi classics that have recently been edited and published by minzu publishing houses—to reconstruct the possible origins and much of the cultural history of Liangshan before the Yuan dynasty. It finds Nuosu-language sources to be particularly rich in descriptions of the kinship system, including strategies and behaviors people employ when arranging marriages among clans; ceremonies being performed by bima in Liangshan today; and of the importance of certain subsistence pursuits, such as hunting, of certain crops, and, particularly, of warfare and military culture.
William H. Crocker
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813054315
- eISBN:
- 9780813053066
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813054315.003.0011
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
Adding to his significant body of work on the Canela, Crocker focuses on recent and important changes that have taken place in regards to Canela marriage. His conclusions are based on his profound ...
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Adding to his significant body of work on the Canela, Crocker focuses on recent and important changes that have taken place in regards to Canela marriage. His conclusions are based on his profound knowledge of the Canela together with new quantitative data collected specifically for this study. By the 1980s, the authority of the council of elders as expressed through the authority of the “uncles” over the marriages of their nephews and nieces had weakened considerably in contrast to the power they had been able to exert during the 1930s and 1940s. There have been few arranged marriages, an increase in “stolen” marriages, an increase in divorce in which children were involved, and a decline in the power of the set of close female relatives of the bride to vet the groom’s suitability. Moreover, the chapter describes the forces of globalization and acculturation that have contributed to the elders’ waning powers.Less
Adding to his significant body of work on the Canela, Crocker focuses on recent and important changes that have taken place in regards to Canela marriage. His conclusions are based on his profound knowledge of the Canela together with new quantitative data collected specifically for this study. By the 1980s, the authority of the council of elders as expressed through the authority of the “uncles” over the marriages of their nephews and nieces had weakened considerably in contrast to the power they had been able to exert during the 1930s and 1940s. There have been few arranged marriages, an increase in “stolen” marriages, an increase in divorce in which children were involved, and a decline in the power of the set of close female relatives of the bride to vet the groom’s suitability. Moreover, the chapter describes the forces of globalization and acculturation that have contributed to the elders’ waning powers.
Sandra M. Bucerius
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199856473
- eISBN:
- 9780199398133
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199856473.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Law, Crime and Deviance, Race and Ethnicity
The question of whether criminals age out of crime or whether certain life events, like the birth of a child or a wedding, trigger them to quit is a longstanding debate within criminology. This ...
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The question of whether criminals age out of crime or whether certain life events, like the birth of a child or a wedding, trigger them to quit is a longstanding debate within criminology. This chapter focuses on the young men’s futures. For most dealers, especially those with lower status in the drug trade, selling drugs is a temporary occupation. The central question explored is how the young men imagined their future and why “marrying” and “religion” became central components of their vision of a “life after drug dealing” in Germany.Less
The question of whether criminals age out of crime or whether certain life events, like the birth of a child or a wedding, trigger them to quit is a longstanding debate within criminology. This chapter focuses on the young men’s futures. For most dealers, especially those with lower status in the drug trade, selling drugs is a temporary occupation. The central question explored is how the young men imagined their future and why “marrying” and “religion” became central components of their vision of a “life after drug dealing” in Germany.
Elisabeth van Houts
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- March 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198798897
- eISBN:
- 9780191839542
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198798897.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History, Social History
This book contains an analysis of the experience of married life by men and women in Christian medieval Europe c. 900–1300. The focus will be on the social and emotional life of the married couple ...
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This book contains an analysis of the experience of married life by men and women in Christian medieval Europe c. 900–1300. The focus will be on the social and emotional life of the married couple rather than on the institutional history of marriage. The book consists of three parts: the first part (Getting Married) is devoted to the process of getting married and wedding celebrations, the second part (Married Life) discusses the married life of lay couples and clergy, their sexuality, and any remarriage, while the third part (Alternative Living) explores concubinage and polygyny as well as the single life in contrast to monogamous sexual unions. Four main themes are central to the book. First, the tension between patriarchal family strategies and the individual family member’s freedom of choice to marry and, if so, to what partner; second, the role played by the married priesthood in their quest to have individual agency and self-determination accepted in their own lives in the face of the growing imposition of clerical celibacy; third, the role played by women in helping society accept some degree of gender equality and self-determination to marry and in shaping the norms for married life incorporating these principles; fourth, the role played by emotion in the establishment of marriage and in married life at a time when sexual and spiritual love feature prominently in medieval literature.Less
This book contains an analysis of the experience of married life by men and women in Christian medieval Europe c. 900–1300. The focus will be on the social and emotional life of the married couple rather than on the institutional history of marriage. The book consists of three parts: the first part (Getting Married) is devoted to the process of getting married and wedding celebrations, the second part (Married Life) discusses the married life of lay couples and clergy, their sexuality, and any remarriage, while the third part (Alternative Living) explores concubinage and polygyny as well as the single life in contrast to monogamous sexual unions. Four main themes are central to the book. First, the tension between patriarchal family strategies and the individual family member’s freedom of choice to marry and, if so, to what partner; second, the role played by the married priesthood in their quest to have individual agency and self-determination accepted in their own lives in the face of the growing imposition of clerical celibacy; third, the role played by women in helping society accept some degree of gender equality and self-determination to marry and in shaping the norms for married life incorporating these principles; fourth, the role played by emotion in the establishment of marriage and in married life at a time when sexual and spiritual love feature prominently in medieval literature.
Sonia Gollance
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781503613492
- eISBN:
- 9781503627802
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9781503613492.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
Weddings were a prime location for dancing in traditional Jewish culture, especially since Jews were religiously obligated to rejoice with a bride and dance before her. As a result, dancing was a ...
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Weddings were a prime location for dancing in traditional Jewish culture, especially since Jews were religiously obligated to rejoice with a bride and dance before her. As a result, dancing was a frequent occasion for literary dance scenes and a common place for young people from different backgrounds to meet one another. Urban and rural guests intermingled, and even beggars were invited to wealthy weddings. At the same time, the ritual framework of a wedding and the presence of community elders meant that traditional Jewish community norms were more quickly enforced at weddings than in other dance spaces, as seen in Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s Der Judenraphael (The Raphael of the Jews, 1882) and Joseph Opatoshu’s A roman fun a ferd-ganef (Romance of a Horse Thief, 1912). At weddings in general and arranged marriages in particular, communal authorities demonstrated their control over intimate relationships and festive dancing.Less
Weddings were a prime location for dancing in traditional Jewish culture, especially since Jews were religiously obligated to rejoice with a bride and dance before her. As a result, dancing was a frequent occasion for literary dance scenes and a common place for young people from different backgrounds to meet one another. Urban and rural guests intermingled, and even beggars were invited to wealthy weddings. At the same time, the ritual framework of a wedding and the presence of community elders meant that traditional Jewish community norms were more quickly enforced at weddings than in other dance spaces, as seen in Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s Der Judenraphael (The Raphael of the Jews, 1882) and Joseph Opatoshu’s A roman fun a ferd-ganef (Romance of a Horse Thief, 1912). At weddings in general and arranged marriages in particular, communal authorities demonstrated their control over intimate relationships and festive dancing.
