Ruth Rothaus Caston
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199925902
- eISBN:
- 9780199980475
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199925902.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Prose and Writers: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy
The passions were a topic of widespread interest in antiquity. This is a study on their role in Roman love elegy (1st c. BCE), a genre rife with passions and jealousy in particular. Jealousy does ...
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The passions were a topic of widespread interest in antiquity. This is a study on their role in Roman love elegy (1st c. BCE), a genre rife with passions and jealousy in particular. Jealousy does appear in a number of earlier genres, but never with the centrality and importance it has in elegy. This book offers an exceptional opportunity to investigate the ancient representation of jealousy in its Roman context, as well as its significance for Roman love elegy itself. The narrators portray themselves as poets and as experts of love, championing a view of love that stands in marked contrast to the criticisms that Stoic and Epicurean philosophers had raised. Elegy provides rich evidence of the genesis and development of erotic jealousy: we find suspicions and rumors of infidelity, obsessive attention to visual clues, and accusations and confrontations with the beloved. The Roman elegists depict the susceptibility and reactions to jealousy along gendered lines, with an asymmetric representation of skepticism and belief, violence and restraint. But jealousy has ramifications well beyond the erotic affair. Underlying jealousy are fears about fides or trust and the vulnerability of human relations. These are prominent in love relationships, of course, but the term has broader application in the Roman world, and the poetic narrator often extends his fears about trust into many other dimensions of life, including friendship, religion, and politics. The infidelity rampant in the love affair indicates a more general breakdown of trust in other human relations. All of these features have implications for the genre itself. Many of the distinctive elements of Roman elegy—its first-person narration, obsessive recordkeeping, and role-playing—can be seen to derive from the thematic concern with jealousy. As such, jealousy provides a new way of understanding the distinctive features of Roman love elegy.Less
The passions were a topic of widespread interest in antiquity. This is a study on their role in Roman love elegy (1st c. BCE), a genre rife with passions and jealousy in particular. Jealousy does appear in a number of earlier genres, but never with the centrality and importance it has in elegy. This book offers an exceptional opportunity to investigate the ancient representation of jealousy in its Roman context, as well as its significance for Roman love elegy itself. The narrators portray themselves as poets and as experts of love, championing a view of love that stands in marked contrast to the criticisms that Stoic and Epicurean philosophers had raised. Elegy provides rich evidence of the genesis and development of erotic jealousy: we find suspicions and rumors of infidelity, obsessive attention to visual clues, and accusations and confrontations with the beloved. The Roman elegists depict the susceptibility and reactions to jealousy along gendered lines, with an asymmetric representation of skepticism and belief, violence and restraint. But jealousy has ramifications well beyond the erotic affair. Underlying jealousy are fears about fides or trust and the vulnerability of human relations. These are prominent in love relationships, of course, but the term has broader application in the Roman world, and the poetic narrator often extends his fears about trust into many other dimensions of life, including friendship, religion, and politics. The infidelity rampant in the love affair indicates a more general breakdown of trust in other human relations. All of these features have implications for the genre itself. Many of the distinctive elements of Roman elegy—its first-person narration, obsessive recordkeeping, and role-playing—can be seen to derive from the thematic concern with jealousy. As such, jealousy provides a new way of understanding the distinctive features of Roman love elegy.
David Bebbington
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199267651
- eISBN:
- 9780191708220
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199267651.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
Although Gladstone never abandoned his attachment to Christian dogma, he developed distinctly Broad Church sympathies in his later years. One reason for this evolution of his views was a reaction ...
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Although Gladstone never abandoned his attachment to Christian dogma, he developed distinctly Broad Church sympathies in his later years. One reason for this evolution of his views was a reaction against the rigid state confessionalism of the earlier period. Another was his strong hostility to the claims of the Roman Catholic Church, which he believed to be a threat to liberty, even though he listened appreciatively to the views of more progressive voices within the Roman communion, especially that of Ignaz von Döllinger. A third reason consisted of his preoccupation with ecumenical relations so that the churches could present a united front against infidelity. His personal crisis of 1850-51, forcing him back on basic beliefs, was a fourth reason. The result was a fresh appreciation of the humanity of Jesus that provided a sanction for compassion with the suffering.Less
Although Gladstone never abandoned his attachment to Christian dogma, he developed distinctly Broad Church sympathies in his later years. One reason for this evolution of his views was a reaction against the rigid state confessionalism of the earlier period. Another was his strong hostility to the claims of the Roman Catholic Church, which he believed to be a threat to liberty, even though he listened appreciatively to the views of more progressive voices within the Roman communion, especially that of Ignaz von Döllinger. A third reason consisted of his preoccupation with ecumenical relations so that the churches could present a united front against infidelity. His personal crisis of 1850-51, forcing him back on basic beliefs, was a fourth reason. The result was a fresh appreciation of the humanity of Jesus that provided a sanction for compassion with the suffering.
David Bebbington
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199267651
- eISBN:
- 9780191708220
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199267651.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
Gladstone waged a campaign against infidelity in his later years. He was unwilling to take up the ground of the Roman Catholic Church of intransigent resistance to modern thought, contending instead ...
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Gladstone waged a campaign against infidelity in his later years. He was unwilling to take up the ground of the Roman Catholic Church of intransigent resistance to modern thought, contending instead that the concurrence of all Christians in certain central doctrines was presumptive evidence of their truth. At the Metaphysical Society Gladstone debated the authority for matters of faith with early agnostics. He engaged in literary exchanges with T. H. Huxley, the champion of Victorian scientific naturalism, with Gladstone vainly attempting to vindicate the sequence of creation as recounted in Genesis by means of modern science. The politician then tried to steady public opinion against the notion that higher criticism had undermined the Bible in The Impregnable Rock of Holy Scripture (1890). After his retirement, Gladstone published an edition of the works of Bishop Butler to illustrate the method to be adopted in Christian apologetic.Less
Gladstone waged a campaign against infidelity in his later years. He was unwilling to take up the ground of the Roman Catholic Church of intransigent resistance to modern thought, contending instead that the concurrence of all Christians in certain central doctrines was presumptive evidence of their truth. At the Metaphysical Society Gladstone debated the authority for matters of faith with early agnostics. He engaged in literary exchanges with T. H. Huxley, the champion of Victorian scientific naturalism, with Gladstone vainly attempting to vindicate the sequence of creation as recounted in Genesis by means of modern science. The politician then tried to steady public opinion against the notion that higher criticism had undermined the Bible in The Impregnable Rock of Holy Scripture (1890). After his retirement, Gladstone published an edition of the works of Bishop Butler to illustrate the method to be adopted in Christian apologetic.
Alison Sinclair
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198151906
- eISBN:
- 9780191672880
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198151906.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This book explores the relationship between two statements as they apply to husbands, but also as they apply to the notion in general of being a man. The first is about the fate of man as husband, ...
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This book explores the relationship between two statements as they apply to husbands, but also as they apply to the notion in general of being a man. The first is about the fate of man as husband, and the second is about the (unspecified) things a man must do if he is to be a man. They express in brief form the much more extensive expectations about the nature of men as husbands and as deceived husbands that will be revealed by the literary examples to be discussed. What is fascinating about the portrayals of these husbands in their suffering of marital infidelity is the degree to which there are common characteristics to be observed in them, characteristics which suggest a generality of pattern, formation, and explanation. The book targets two main types of portrayal of the husband – the cuckold and the man of honour – and discusses the principal theoretical framework on object-relations theory.Less
This book explores the relationship between two statements as they apply to husbands, but also as they apply to the notion in general of being a man. The first is about the fate of man as husband, and the second is about the (unspecified) things a man must do if he is to be a man. They express in brief form the much more extensive expectations about the nature of men as husbands and as deceived husbands that will be revealed by the literary examples to be discussed. What is fascinating about the portrayals of these husbands in their suffering of marital infidelity is the degree to which there are common characteristics to be observed in them, characteristics which suggest a generality of pattern, formation, and explanation. The book targets two main types of portrayal of the husband – the cuckold and the man of honour – and discusses the principal theoretical framework on object-relations theory.
Alison Sinclair
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198151906
- eISBN:
- 9780191672880
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198151906.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
The concept of sexual infidelity is both widespread and ancient. It requires, as a precondition, the concept of sexual fidelity, and further that it has as its context a society in which there is the ...
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The concept of sexual infidelity is both widespread and ancient. It requires, as a precondition, the concept of sexual fidelity, and further that it has as its context a society in which there is the institution of marriage, or some similar long-term heterosexual and exclusive relationship, and in which the expectation is that there shall be conjugal fidelity, at least on the part of the wife. The language relating to infidelity reiterates patriarchal concern with the infidelity of wives rather than that of husbands. At first sight, some of the language relating to the cuckold appears to give weight to the socio-historical argument that matters of inheritance are the reason why the fault of wives appears to cause interest and concern, whereas the sexual fault of husbands that leads them from the marriage bed is taken so much for granted that it is not equally regarded as a fault.Less
The concept of sexual infidelity is both widespread and ancient. It requires, as a precondition, the concept of sexual fidelity, and further that it has as its context a society in which there is the institution of marriage, or some similar long-term heterosexual and exclusive relationship, and in which the expectation is that there shall be conjugal fidelity, at least on the part of the wife. The language relating to infidelity reiterates patriarchal concern with the infidelity of wives rather than that of husbands. At first sight, some of the language relating to the cuckold appears to give weight to the socio-historical argument that matters of inheritance are the reason why the fault of wives appears to cause interest and concern, whereas the sexual fault of husbands that leads them from the marriage bed is taken so much for granted that it is not equally regarded as a fault.
Alison Sinclair
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198151906
- eISBN:
- 9780191672880
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198151906.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Adulteresses' husbands represented in the nineteenth-century adultery novels discussed in this chapter range through the entire spectrum from cuckold to man of honour, with the majority moving ...
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Adulteresses' husbands represented in the nineteenth-century adultery novels discussed in this chapter range through the entire spectrum from cuckold to man of honour, with the majority moving between the two. The chapter takes examples of texts where the husband can most closely be aligned with one or other of the models discussed so far: Madame Bovary, He Knew He Was Right, and Effi Briest. It then takes La Regenta as an example of a text where the treatment of the husband is more complex, but the central theme is still the husband's relation to infidelity. Dombey and Son and The Kreutzer Sonata are then taken as examples of narratives containing powerful subtexts of denial and splitting in the face of emotion and sexuality. Finally, Anna Karenina provides a text where the complexity of the husband's reaction to infidelity is set in a web of meditation upon marriage and society.Less
Adulteresses' husbands represented in the nineteenth-century adultery novels discussed in this chapter range through the entire spectrum from cuckold to man of honour, with the majority moving between the two. The chapter takes examples of texts where the husband can most closely be aligned with one or other of the models discussed so far: Madame Bovary, He Knew He Was Right, and Effi Briest. It then takes La Regenta as an example of a text where the treatment of the husband is more complex, but the central theme is still the husband's relation to infidelity. Dombey and Son and The Kreutzer Sonata are then taken as examples of narratives containing powerful subtexts of denial and splitting in the face of emotion and sexuality. Finally, Anna Karenina provides a text where the complexity of the husband's reaction to infidelity is set in a web of meditation upon marriage and society.
Alison Sinclair
- Published in print:
- 1993
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198151906
- eISBN:
- 9780191672880
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198151906.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
In his discussion of The Winter's Tale, Wilbur Sanders dwells on the unusual fact that Leontes, wrongly suspecting his wife of adultery, and receiving the news that she has died as a result of his ...
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In his discussion of The Winter's Tale, Wilbur Sanders dwells on the unusual fact that Leontes, wrongly suspecting his wife of adultery, and receiving the news that she has died as a result of his wrath, opts to draw close to his grief, and face it in all its intensity. This chapter concentrates on those images of exceptional husbands, men of distinction. The idealised belief is that it may be possible to locate the ultimate depressive position in relation to the deceived husband. Such an ultimate position would have two dimensions: the capacity of the deceived husband as character to confront his grief, and the capacity of the literary text to contain and articulate that experience. The depressive position vis-à-vis women's infidelity is sketched, if not in relation to the cuckold, at least in the social fact and implications of the literature of cuckoldry. In its turn, it is replaced by the depressive position as exemplified in the adultery novels.Less
In his discussion of The Winter's Tale, Wilbur Sanders dwells on the unusual fact that Leontes, wrongly suspecting his wife of adultery, and receiving the news that she has died as a result of his wrath, opts to draw close to his grief, and face it in all its intensity. This chapter concentrates on those images of exceptional husbands, men of distinction. The idealised belief is that it may be possible to locate the ultimate depressive position in relation to the deceived husband. Such an ultimate position would have two dimensions: the capacity of the deceived husband as character to confront his grief, and the capacity of the literary text to contain and articulate that experience. The depressive position vis-à-vis women's infidelity is sketched, if not in relation to the cuckold, at least in the social fact and implications of the literature of cuckoldry. In its turn, it is replaced by the depressive position as exemplified in the adultery novels.
Paul Marshall and Nina Shea
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199812264
- eISBN:
- 9780199919383
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199812264.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
Saudi Arabia has perhaps the broadest blasphemy and apostasy prohibitions. The government uses its position as custodian of Islam's two holiest shrines, Mecca and Medina, to assert that its Wahhabi ...
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Saudi Arabia has perhaps the broadest blasphemy and apostasy prohibitions. The government uses its position as custodian of Islam's two holiest shrines, Mecca and Medina, to assert that its Wahhabi interpretation of the faith is the authoritative one. Effectively, this means that Muslims of different views, whether Shias, Sufis, reformers or political dissidents, may be condemned as apostates. For example, the opening fatwa of a government educational pamphlet rebukes a European imam for his “infidelity” because he “casts doubts about the infidelity of Jews and Christians.” This is a serious charge since, according to the country's textbooks, it is permissible to kill someone for infidelity, though within the Kingdom, prison terms and flogging are more likely. Saudi Arabia's Shia minority, including Ismailis, suffer disproportionately for blasphemy offenses. Among those in the Sunni majority Sunni convicted in recent years were democracy activists, imprisoned for using “unIslamic” terminology, such as “democracy” and “human rights.” Among those given prison terms and lashes for “mocking religion” were teachers who discussed the Bible in class and made favorable comments about Jews, or who maintained that the dominance of radical Islamists over Saudi university culture had harmed the quality of programs.Less
Saudi Arabia has perhaps the broadest blasphemy and apostasy prohibitions. The government uses its position as custodian of Islam's two holiest shrines, Mecca and Medina, to assert that its Wahhabi interpretation of the faith is the authoritative one. Effectively, this means that Muslims of different views, whether Shias, Sufis, reformers or political dissidents, may be condemned as apostates. For example, the opening fatwa of a government educational pamphlet rebukes a European imam for his “infidelity” because he “casts doubts about the infidelity of Jews and Christians.” This is a serious charge since, according to the country's textbooks, it is permissible to kill someone for infidelity, though within the Kingdom, prison terms and flogging are more likely. Saudi Arabia's Shia minority, including Ismailis, suffer disproportionately for blasphemy offenses. Among those in the Sunni majority Sunni convicted in recent years were democracy activists, imprisoned for using “unIslamic” terminology, such as “democracy” and “human rights.” Among those given prison terms and lashes for “mocking religion” were teachers who discussed the Bible in class and made favorable comments about Jews, or who maintained that the dominance of radical Islamists over Saudi university culture had harmed the quality of programs.
Roshanak Kheshti
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479867011
- eISBN:
- 9781479861125
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479867011.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
The concluding chapter offers an alternate and parallel history of listening to the other in modernity through an examination of recordings made of and by Zora Neale Hurston in various recording ...
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The concluding chapter offers an alternate and parallel history of listening to the other in modernity through an examination of recordings made of and by Zora Neale Hurston in various recording expeditions between 1935 and 1939. This contrapuntal Epilogue focuses on recordings that offer an alternative listening relation to the one chronicled in the other five chapters, one that is as firmly rooted within modernity but refuses the social structuration and symbolic formations mapped in the WMCI. This concluding chapter presents a different origin story of recording than the one chronicled in the book, offering the starting point for a liberationist genealogy that the book wishes for.Less
The concluding chapter offers an alternate and parallel history of listening to the other in modernity through an examination of recordings made of and by Zora Neale Hurston in various recording expeditions between 1935 and 1939. This contrapuntal Epilogue focuses on recordings that offer an alternative listening relation to the one chronicled in the other five chapters, one that is as firmly rooted within modernity but refuses the social structuration and symbolic formations mapped in the WMCI. This concluding chapter presents a different origin story of recording than the one chronicled in the book, offering the starting point for a liberationist genealogy that the book wishes for.
Amanda H. Littauer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469623788
- eISBN:
- 9781469625195
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469623788.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This chapter examines the lives of the “victory girls” of World War II—young women who exhibited patriotism by offering sex to servicemen. This relationship defied not only social norms but also the ...
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This chapter examines the lives of the “victory girls” of World War II—young women who exhibited patriotism by offering sex to servicemen. This relationship defied not only social norms but also the authorities that attempted to classify, manage, and restrain young people's sexual acts and attitudes. World War II left a legacy of young female sexual self-assertion that would generate both conservative and liberal responses in the postwar years, inspiring calls for female sexual autonomy during the “sexual revolution” to come. The stories examined in the chapter illustrate how the nation's military mobilization expanded young women's access to casual encounters. It also discusses the issues that emerged such as infidelity, rape, and the rise of sexually transmitted diseases.Less
This chapter examines the lives of the “victory girls” of World War II—young women who exhibited patriotism by offering sex to servicemen. This relationship defied not only social norms but also the authorities that attempted to classify, manage, and restrain young people's sexual acts and attitudes. World War II left a legacy of young female sexual self-assertion that would generate both conservative and liberal responses in the postwar years, inspiring calls for female sexual autonomy during the “sexual revolution” to come. The stories examined in the chapter illustrate how the nation's military mobilization expanded young women's access to casual encounters. It also discusses the issues that emerged such as infidelity, rape, and the rise of sexually transmitted diseases.
Ruth Harris
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198202592
- eISBN:
- 9780191675430
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202592.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter focuses on feminine crimes of passion, an investigation which aroused considerable professional and lay commentary. Literally hundreds of murderesses between 1880 and 1910 committed ...
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This chapter focuses on feminine crimes of passion, an investigation which aroused considerable professional and lay commentary. Literally hundreds of murderesses between 1880 and 1910 committed crimes of passion against erring, irresponsible, or brutal mates and were almost invariably exonerated by the court. While the previous analysis of hysteria and hypnotism focused chiefly on the medical characterization of womanly susceptibility to suggestive influence, this discussion examines the various representations of feminine motive and responsibility in cases of crimes of passion. Above all, it investigates the reasons for the clemency meted out by exclusively male petit-bourgeois juries. The chapter also provides some account of the more hidden dimensions of manipulation and exchange that characterized the interaction between, on the one hand, the official masculine world of psychiatric assessment and judicial analysis and, on the other, the feminine arena of dramatic and righteous self-presentation and retrospective rationalization.Less
This chapter focuses on feminine crimes of passion, an investigation which aroused considerable professional and lay commentary. Literally hundreds of murderesses between 1880 and 1910 committed crimes of passion against erring, irresponsible, or brutal mates and were almost invariably exonerated by the court. While the previous analysis of hysteria and hypnotism focused chiefly on the medical characterization of womanly susceptibility to suggestive influence, this discussion examines the various representations of feminine motive and responsibility in cases of crimes of passion. Above all, it investigates the reasons for the clemency meted out by exclusively male petit-bourgeois juries. The chapter also provides some account of the more hidden dimensions of manipulation and exchange that characterized the interaction between, on the one hand, the official masculine world of psychiatric assessment and judicial analysis and, on the other, the feminine arena of dramatic and righteous self-presentation and retrospective rationalization.
Moshe Almagor
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816669554
- eISBN:
- 9781452946894
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816669554.003.0011
- Subject:
- Psychology, Clinical Psychology
This chapter discusses the therapeutic process for a couple involved with infidelity. Infidelity is a violation of the contract between spouses that specifies exclusivity of the relationship. It is ...
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This chapter discusses the therapeutic process for a couple involved with infidelity. Infidelity is a violation of the contract between spouses that specifies exclusivity of the relationship. It is an element of instability brought into the system, sometimes with the purpose of stabilizing it. The chapter describes the prevalence of infidelity and classifies it into three types: sexual, emotional, and virtual. The system protects itself against infidelity by using several measures, one of which is the marital contract and religiosity. Most couples who come to therapy want to end the crisis, restore the relationship, and make sure it will not happen again. The chapter further discusses the ground rules and process of the therapy for couples who struggle with infidelity.Less
This chapter discusses the therapeutic process for a couple involved with infidelity. Infidelity is a violation of the contract between spouses that specifies exclusivity of the relationship. It is an element of instability brought into the system, sometimes with the purpose of stabilizing it. The chapter describes the prevalence of infidelity and classifies it into three types: sexual, emotional, and virtual. The system protects itself against infidelity by using several measures, one of which is the marital contract and religiosity. Most couples who come to therapy want to end the crisis, restore the relationship, and make sure it will not happen again. The chapter further discusses the ground rules and process of the therapy for couples who struggle with infidelity.
Steven M. Ortiz
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780252043161
- eISBN:
- 9780252052040
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043161.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
Male professional athletes captivate fans and profoundly influence today’s society as part of the $1.3 trillion global sport industry. Although these athletes’ lives and careers are widely reported, ...
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Male professional athletes captivate fans and profoundly influence today’s society as part of the $1.3 trillion global sport industry. Although these athletes’ lives and careers are widely reported, scholarly knowledge about the women who support them—their wives—is extremely limited. Because these women’s voices have historically been stifled, their marriages are shockingly misunderstood. Based on findings from the first and only longitudinal study on the sport marriage, this book corrects the abundance of misinformation reported by all forms of media, dispels undeserved stereotypes, and addresses inaccurate assumptions about the heteronormative sport marriage. It demonstrates how, despite major changes in society and sport since the end of the last century, the fundamental nature of the heteronormative sport marriage has not changed. Sport wives remain isolated and subordinate, even while they make significant contributions to their husbands’ careers. Identifying the sport marriage as a career-dominated marriage, the book allows us into these women’s public and private lives, including their need to conform to unwritten rules and codes, adapt to abundant power and control issues, cope with groupies from all walks of life, and find ways to deal with their oft-justified fears about their husbands’ infidelity. The book shares intimate stories about, and provides rare and unflinching insight into, what it is like to be married to these highly visible men, what it means to be a woman in the male-dominated world of professional sports, and why women remain in a sport marriage at great cost to themselves.Less
Male professional athletes captivate fans and profoundly influence today’s society as part of the $1.3 trillion global sport industry. Although these athletes’ lives and careers are widely reported, scholarly knowledge about the women who support them—their wives—is extremely limited. Because these women’s voices have historically been stifled, their marriages are shockingly misunderstood. Based on findings from the first and only longitudinal study on the sport marriage, this book corrects the abundance of misinformation reported by all forms of media, dispels undeserved stereotypes, and addresses inaccurate assumptions about the heteronormative sport marriage. It demonstrates how, despite major changes in society and sport since the end of the last century, the fundamental nature of the heteronormative sport marriage has not changed. Sport wives remain isolated and subordinate, even while they make significant contributions to their husbands’ careers. Identifying the sport marriage as a career-dominated marriage, the book allows us into these women’s public and private lives, including their need to conform to unwritten rules and codes, adapt to abundant power and control issues, cope with groupies from all walks of life, and find ways to deal with their oft-justified fears about their husbands’ infidelity. The book shares intimate stories about, and provides rare and unflinching insight into, what it is like to be married to these highly visible men, what it means to be a woman in the male-dominated world of professional sports, and why women remain in a sport marriage at great cost to themselves.
Jonathan Harrison
- Published in print:
- 1980
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198246190
- eISBN:
- 9780191680946
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198246190.003.0012
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This chapter discusses the following: (1) The duties of men compared with those of nations. (2) Apparent inconsistency in Hume's views resolved. (3) Hume's a priori philosopher a device to emphasize ...
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This chapter discusses the following: (1) The duties of men compared with those of nations. (2) Apparent inconsistency in Hume's views resolved. (3) Hume's a priori philosopher a device to emphasize the ingenuity of nature, but his explanation of how it comes about that we disapprove of immodesty and infidelity in women is lame. (4) The penalties of having a bad reputation. (5) What does Hume mean by attaching shame to infidelity ‘above what arises merely from its injustice’? (6) Meaning of ‘the punishment of bad fame or reputation’. (7) The seriousness of marital infidelity. (8) The immorality of immodesty and infidelity in women incapable of having children. (9) Whether Hume is right in thinking that it is a ‘natural instinct’ to care for one's children. Why do men object to bringing up other men's children? (10) Why the woman's act and the man's act do not have to be equally serious and why the woman's act may be more serious than the man's. (11) Is Hume right in thinking that the reason for condemning immodesty and infidelity springs from the necessity of bringing up children? They could be rules for allocation of scarce resources, if the scarcity is not itself a product of the rules. (12) Rules about immodesty and infidelity as applied to bachelors and spinsters. (13) The effects of a marriage ceremony on the morality of sexual intercourse. (14) The effect of contraception upon duties of modesty and fidelity. (15) Unlimited benevolence as a reason for not having rules concerning modesty and infidelity.Less
This chapter discusses the following: (1) The duties of men compared with those of nations. (2) Apparent inconsistency in Hume's views resolved. (3) Hume's a priori philosopher a device to emphasize the ingenuity of nature, but his explanation of how it comes about that we disapprove of immodesty and infidelity in women is lame. (4) The penalties of having a bad reputation. (5) What does Hume mean by attaching shame to infidelity ‘above what arises merely from its injustice’? (6) Meaning of ‘the punishment of bad fame or reputation’. (7) The seriousness of marital infidelity. (8) The immorality of immodesty and infidelity in women incapable of having children. (9) Whether Hume is right in thinking that it is a ‘natural instinct’ to care for one's children. Why do men object to bringing up other men's children? (10) Why the woman's act and the man's act do not have to be equally serious and why the woman's act may be more serious than the man's. (11) Is Hume right in thinking that the reason for condemning immodesty and infidelity springs from the necessity of bringing up children? They could be rules for allocation of scarce resources, if the scarcity is not itself a product of the rules. (12) Rules about immodesty and infidelity as applied to bachelors and spinsters. (13) The effects of a marriage ceremony on the morality of sexual intercourse. (14) The effect of contraception upon duties of modesty and fidelity. (15) Unlimited benevolence as a reason for not having rules concerning modesty and infidelity.
Steven M. Ortiz
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780252043161
- eISBN:
- 9780252052040
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252043161.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
This chapter takes a deeper look at the culture of infidelity that pervades the world of professional sports, why wives share a universal fear that their husbands will be unfaithful, and how they are ...
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This chapter takes a deeper look at the culture of infidelity that pervades the world of professional sports, why wives share a universal fear that their husbands will be unfaithful, and how they are affected by the possibility or actuality that their husbands will engage in sexual or emotional relationships with other women. Three patterns of infidelity are identified in the context of the sport marriage: the one-time encounter, the short-term affair, and the long-term affair. The concept of suspicion work is introduced to examine how wives try to manage the fear that their husbands may succumb to temptation and to specify how denial can be part of this process. The chapter discusses re-entry routines and communication methods some couples use when husbands return from travel, and the boundaries of fidelity and forgiveness wives establish as they attempt to cope with the realities of their husbands’ lives on the road.Less
This chapter takes a deeper look at the culture of infidelity that pervades the world of professional sports, why wives share a universal fear that their husbands will be unfaithful, and how they are affected by the possibility or actuality that their husbands will engage in sexual or emotional relationships with other women. Three patterns of infidelity are identified in the context of the sport marriage: the one-time encounter, the short-term affair, and the long-term affair. The concept of suspicion work is introduced to examine how wives try to manage the fear that their husbands may succumb to temptation and to specify how denial can be part of this process. The chapter discusses re-entry routines and communication methods some couples use when husbands return from travel, and the boundaries of fidelity and forgiveness wives establish as they attempt to cope with the realities of their husbands’ lives on the road.
Frances R. Aparicio
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780252042690
- eISBN:
- 9780252051555
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042690.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter unravels both the identification and alienation between Intralatino/a children and their parents given the performance of gender and sexuality. I examine the case of Daniel, who is ...
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This chapter unravels both the identification and alienation between Intralatino/a children and their parents given the performance of gender and sexuality. I examine the case of Daniel, who is Dominican, Puerto Rican, and Mexican-American, but who identifies strongly with his mother and with her Dominican national identity, thus illustrating the traditional theories regarding the mother’s central role in transmitting culture, especially in mixed families. I also discuss the profound pain of two other Intralatino/as, Mario and Maria Isabel, who counteract Daniel’s narrative by distancing themselves from the problematic gendered and sexual behavior of their respective father and mother. By reading them together, the three narratives critically reflect on gender identities—both their own and those of their parents, revealing how gender and sexuality inform the disavowal of national identities among Intralatino/as.Less
This chapter unravels both the identification and alienation between Intralatino/a children and their parents given the performance of gender and sexuality. I examine the case of Daniel, who is Dominican, Puerto Rican, and Mexican-American, but who identifies strongly with his mother and with her Dominican national identity, thus illustrating the traditional theories regarding the mother’s central role in transmitting culture, especially in mixed families. I also discuss the profound pain of two other Intralatino/as, Mario and Maria Isabel, who counteract Daniel’s narrative by distancing themselves from the problematic gendered and sexual behavior of their respective father and mother. By reading them together, the three narratives critically reflect on gender identities—both their own and those of their parents, revealing how gender and sexuality inform the disavowal of national identities among Intralatino/as.
N. Glass
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814757437
- eISBN:
- 9780814763469
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814757437.003.0038
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter indicates a shift in morality regarding sex among eastern European Jews, and the new role played by radical intellectuals as moral arbiters, as illustrated via a letter to Kalman Marmor, ...
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This chapter indicates a shift in morality regarding sex among eastern European Jews, and the new role played by radical intellectuals as moral arbiters, as illustrated via a letter to Kalman Marmor, a prolific cultural historian and educator in the Communist movement. This letter inquires after a variety of topics regarding marriage and infidelity, as contextualized within a Communist viewpoint. It briefly touches upon the broader subjects of marriage and sex, before turning to its finer points: infidelity, extramarital sex, and the disclosure of such intimate information to outside parties. Furthermore, the letter notably frames these inquiries in the context of morality.Less
This chapter indicates a shift in morality regarding sex among eastern European Jews, and the new role played by radical intellectuals as moral arbiters, as illustrated via a letter to Kalman Marmor, a prolific cultural historian and educator in the Communist movement. This letter inquires after a variety of topics regarding marriage and infidelity, as contextualized within a Communist viewpoint. It briefly touches upon the broader subjects of marriage and sex, before turning to its finer points: infidelity, extramarital sex, and the disclosure of such intimate information to outside parties. Furthermore, the letter notably frames these inquiries in the context of morality.
Andelka M Phillips
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781474422598
- eISBN:
- 9781474476485
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474422598.003.0003
- Subject:
- Law, Legal Profession and Ethics
This chapter begins with an overview of the industry, including a discussion of the different types of tests available and prominent companies. It divided into sections addressing each of the ...
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This chapter begins with an overview of the industry, including a discussion of the different types of tests available and prominent companies. It divided into sections addressing each of the different types of tests available. These discuss the companies operating and the issues which each type of test raises, including the implications for consumers. This draws upon the author’s research on the industry, some version of her dataset are available via Zenodo. https://zenodo.org/record/1183565#.Xfa18i1L0_ULess
This chapter begins with an overview of the industry, including a discussion of the different types of tests available and prominent companies. It divided into sections addressing each of the different types of tests available. These discuss the companies operating and the issues which each type of test raises, including the implications for consumers. This draws upon the author’s research on the industry, some version of her dataset are available via Zenodo. https://zenodo.org/record/1183565#.Xfa18i1L0_U
Claire McDiarmid
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748640706
- eISBN:
- 9780748651450
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748640706.003.0023
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
Provocation privileges homicidal fury. It allows certain persons who kill in that state to be convicted of culpable homicide rather than murder. It does not do this overtly and it does not, in ...
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Provocation privileges homicidal fury. It allows certain persons who kill in that state to be convicted of culpable homicide rather than murder. It does not do this overtly and it does not, in theory, exclude those who kill under the influence of other extreme emotions, but the conditions of the defence still lend themselves to a response of excessive anger to the initial provoking act. It has not been particularly problematic operationally in Scots law but this is because its scope is extremely limited rather than because it works well in identifying circumstances in which the accused truly deserves to be partially excused. This chapter argues that, to be fit for purpose in a twenty-first-century society, provocation cannot escape reform. It considers the influence of its historical development, from its roots as a form of excessive self-defence, and the lack of clarity in the law to which this led in the early part of the twentieth century. It argues that it is no longer appropriate to limit the entry points into the defence — the provoking acts — to the historically contingent behaviours of violence and the discovery of sexual infidelity.Less
Provocation privileges homicidal fury. It allows certain persons who kill in that state to be convicted of culpable homicide rather than murder. It does not do this overtly and it does not, in theory, exclude those who kill under the influence of other extreme emotions, but the conditions of the defence still lend themselves to a response of excessive anger to the initial provoking act. It has not been particularly problematic operationally in Scots law but this is because its scope is extremely limited rather than because it works well in identifying circumstances in which the accused truly deserves to be partially excused. This chapter argues that, to be fit for purpose in a twenty-first-century society, provocation cannot escape reform. It considers the influence of its historical development, from its roots as a form of excessive self-defence, and the lack of clarity in the law to which this led in the early part of the twentieth century. It argues that it is no longer appropriate to limit the entry points into the defence — the provoking acts — to the historically contingent behaviours of violence and the discovery of sexual infidelity.
Miriam G. Reumann
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520238350
- eISBN:
- 9780520930049
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520238350.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
Postwar Americans concurrently supported marriage as the cornerstone of personal fulfillment and believed it to be in crisis. They endorsed the institution in unprecedented numbers, as the vast ...
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Postwar Americans concurrently supported marriage as the cornerstone of personal fulfillment and believed it to be in crisis. They endorsed the institution in unprecedented numbers, as the vast majority of the population chose wedlock over single life, and marriage became increasingly central to national ideology. Kinsey's studies reported that less than half of Americans' sexual activity took place between spouses, and observers imparted the prevalence and devastating effects of premarital sex, infidelity, divorce, and other ills. The marital relationship meant many things to postwar observers. At a moment of intense pronatalism, it was the necessary setting for the birth and rearing of legitimate children. Generally understood as an intensely private realm based on an emotional bond between unique individuals, marriage promised personal happiness and fulfillment. In addition, it was the central, and to some the only, proper setting for sexual expression.Less
Postwar Americans concurrently supported marriage as the cornerstone of personal fulfillment and believed it to be in crisis. They endorsed the institution in unprecedented numbers, as the vast majority of the population chose wedlock over single life, and marriage became increasingly central to national ideology. Kinsey's studies reported that less than half of Americans' sexual activity took place between spouses, and observers imparted the prevalence and devastating effects of premarital sex, infidelity, divorce, and other ills. The marital relationship meant many things to postwar observers. At a moment of intense pronatalism, it was the necessary setting for the birth and rearing of legitimate children. Generally understood as an intensely private realm based on an emotional bond between unique individuals, marriage promised personal happiness and fulfillment. In addition, it was the central, and to some the only, proper setting for sexual expression.
