M.N. Srinivas
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198077459
- eISBN:
- 9780199081165
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198077459.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Urban and Rural Studies
This chapter notes that sex difference provided an important basis for division of labour, and this was true for all the castes. Among all castes, the kitchen was a recognized sphere of feminine ...
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This chapter notes that sex difference provided an important basis for division of labour, and this was true for all the castes. Among all castes, the kitchen was a recognized sphere of feminine activity, but the extent of participation in a man's traditional occupation varied from caste to caste, and household to household. Generally, women from the richest households and the highest castes remained confined to their homes while women from the poorest households and lowest castes worked outside for cash wages. It was the male head of the household who carried out the traditional caste occupation—be it agriculture, smithy, trade, or priesthood. Meanwhile, sex was regarded as a natural urge just like hunger. It is said in Rampura that no ordinary man could control his sexual urge except perhaps for brief periods.Less
This chapter notes that sex difference provided an important basis for division of labour, and this was true for all the castes. Among all castes, the kitchen was a recognized sphere of feminine activity, but the extent of participation in a man's traditional occupation varied from caste to caste, and household to household. Generally, women from the richest households and the highest castes remained confined to their homes while women from the poorest households and lowest castes worked outside for cash wages. It was the male head of the household who carried out the traditional caste occupation—be it agriculture, smithy, trade, or priesthood. Meanwhile, sex was regarded as a natural urge just like hunger. It is said in Rampura that no ordinary man could control his sexual urge except perhaps for brief periods.
Hanan Kholoussy
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9789774249006
- eISBN:
- 9781617971006
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774249006.003.0012
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
This chapter extends empirically and conceptually one of the most dynamic categories of Egyptian historiography related to gender roles. It focuses on the post-1919 state's unparalleled intervention ...
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This chapter extends empirically and conceptually one of the most dynamic categories of Egyptian historiography related to gender roles. It focuses on the post-1919 state's unparalleled intervention in marital relations. Making extensive use of debates in the press, in the legislature, and among intellectuals, this chapter argues that Egyptian nationalist reformers sought to redefine marriage in order to create a nuclear family as the foundation for a nation free of the perceived social ills of polygamy and male-initiated divorce. Likewise, it reveals how Egyptian writers used marriage to critique their society through prescriptions for modernity. This chapter contributes to the historical understanding of marriage in monarchical Egypt; it also demonstrates how this important social institution can be used to reconceptualize Egyptian nationalism, with theoretical ramifications for other national contexts.Less
This chapter extends empirically and conceptually one of the most dynamic categories of Egyptian historiography related to gender roles. It focuses on the post-1919 state's unparalleled intervention in marital relations. Making extensive use of debates in the press, in the legislature, and among intellectuals, this chapter argues that Egyptian nationalist reformers sought to redefine marriage in order to create a nuclear family as the foundation for a nation free of the perceived social ills of polygamy and male-initiated divorce. Likewise, it reveals how Egyptian writers used marriage to critique their society through prescriptions for modernity. This chapter contributes to the historical understanding of marriage in monarchical Egypt; it also demonstrates how this important social institution can be used to reconceptualize Egyptian nationalism, with theoretical ramifications for other national contexts.
Michael Mason
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198122470
- eISBN:
- 9780191671425
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198122470.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter examines broad patterns in sexual behaviour in 19th-century England and Wales. It deals with the most widespread shifts and stabilities in heterosexual marital and extra-marital sexual ...
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This chapter examines broad patterns in sexual behaviour in 19th-century England and Wales. It deals with the most widespread shifts and stabilities in heterosexual marital and extra-marital sexual relations and their procreative outcome. The sexual culture of the individual groups within English society is commented on with the assumption that in sexual behaviour, differences of class were likely to pose the most important distinctions. There were continuities and discontinuities between the theory and the practice of sexual moralism depending on which aspect of the stereotype of the “Victorian” is in question. Victorian middle-class wives suffered an actual deprivation of sexual pleasure because of moralistic ignorance about women's sexual responses.Less
This chapter examines broad patterns in sexual behaviour in 19th-century England and Wales. It deals with the most widespread shifts and stabilities in heterosexual marital and extra-marital sexual relations and their procreative outcome. The sexual culture of the individual groups within English society is commented on with the assumption that in sexual behaviour, differences of class were likely to pose the most important distinctions. There were continuities and discontinuities between the theory and the practice of sexual moralism depending on which aspect of the stereotype of the “Victorian” is in question. Victorian middle-class wives suffered an actual deprivation of sexual pleasure because of moralistic ignorance about women's sexual responses.
Michael Mason
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198122470
- eISBN:
- 9780191671425
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198122470.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter deals with patterns in sexual behavior in 19th-century England and Wales. It focuses on the most widespread shifts and stabilities in heterosexual marital and extra-marital sexual ...
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This chapter deals with patterns in sexual behavior in 19th-century England and Wales. It focuses on the most widespread shifts and stabilities in heterosexual marital and extra-marital sexual relations and their procreative outcome. In 19th-century England and Wales social rank and sexual codes went hand in hand. According to the radical Sir Richard Phillips it was the moral opinion of the general public which checked the sexual license of the English elite. Sexual mores were also linked with the changing patterns of demography, such as the slowing down of the growth of industrial centers in England and Wales in this period.Less
This chapter deals with patterns in sexual behavior in 19th-century England and Wales. It focuses on the most widespread shifts and stabilities in heterosexual marital and extra-marital sexual relations and their procreative outcome. In 19th-century England and Wales social rank and sexual codes went hand in hand. According to the radical Sir Richard Phillips it was the moral opinion of the general public which checked the sexual license of the English elite. Sexual mores were also linked with the changing patterns of demography, such as the slowing down of the growth of industrial centers in England and Wales in this period.
Helen E Fisher
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199586073
- eISBN:
- 9780191731358
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199586073.003.0007
- Subject:
- Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology, Developmental Psychology
Considerable data suggest that humans have evolved a dual reproductive strategy: life long and/or serial monogamy in conjunction with clandestine adultery. This paper explores the underlying ...
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Considerable data suggest that humans have evolved a dual reproductive strategy: life long and/or serial monogamy in conjunction with clandestine adultery. This paper explores the underlying biochemical and genetic mechanisms likely to contribute to this flexible, yet specific human reproductive system, and explores some of the implications of this dual human reproductive strategy for contemporary partnerships. Critics of evolutionary psychology fail to find the profound value of this budding discipline, yet it yields important insights that could be of use to medical and legal professionals, researchers and therapists.Less
Considerable data suggest that humans have evolved a dual reproductive strategy: life long and/or serial monogamy in conjunction with clandestine adultery. This paper explores the underlying biochemical and genetic mechanisms likely to contribute to this flexible, yet specific human reproductive system, and explores some of the implications of this dual human reproductive strategy for contemporary partnerships. Critics of evolutionary psychology fail to find the profound value of this budding discipline, yet it yields important insights that could be of use to medical and legal professionals, researchers and therapists.
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804763110
- eISBN:
- 9780804772938
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804763110.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter demonstrates some men's struggles to produce more equitable property arrangements and marital relations, concentrating especially on the problem of the femme coverte, or legal status of ...
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This chapter demonstrates some men's struggles to produce more equitable property arrangements and marital relations, concentrating especially on the problem of the femme coverte, or legal status of the married woman. The radical men who took up the cause of marriage reform with the goal of curbing male authority were engaged in a delicate operation. The “companionate” model of marriage gained increasing popularity over the course of the eighteenth century. It is noted that the laws regarding women and regulating the domestic site, contra Blackstone, were highly contingent. The proposals for legal reform of marriage were the efforts to awaken the family so as to mirror the contractual arrangement founded between the ruler and the people one hundred years earlier.Less
This chapter demonstrates some men's struggles to produce more equitable property arrangements and marital relations, concentrating especially on the problem of the femme coverte, or legal status of the married woman. The radical men who took up the cause of marriage reform with the goal of curbing male authority were engaged in a delicate operation. The “companionate” model of marriage gained increasing popularity over the course of the eighteenth century. It is noted that the laws regarding women and regulating the domestic site, contra Blackstone, were highly contingent. The proposals for legal reform of marriage were the efforts to awaken the family so as to mirror the contractual arrangement founded between the ruler and the people one hundred years earlier.
Mark E. Kann
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814770191
- eISBN:
- 9780814759462
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814770191.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
This book examines how the nation's early elites legitimized and perpetuated patriarchal authority over the sex lives of the first few generations of Americans in a newly emergent liberal society. ...
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This book examines how the nation's early elites legitimized and perpetuated patriarchal authority over the sex lives of the first few generations of Americans in a newly emergent liberal society. More specifically, it considers how the new nation's political father figures were able to retain virtually uncontested legitimacy and power to regulate the terms of citizens' marital relations as well as their nonmarital sexual experiments. It shows how, regardless of the widespread rhetoric of liberty and the robust growth of individualism, civic leaders and public officials in the new Republic succeeded in reconciling core aspects of traditional patriarchal authority and the new liberalism. The book argues that local leaders policed people's sexual behavior based on patriarchal authority by exercising a caring paternalism in the name of people's welfare and liberty, thereby eliciting popular consent and keeping alive what it calls a “resilient patriarchy.”Less
This book examines how the nation's early elites legitimized and perpetuated patriarchal authority over the sex lives of the first few generations of Americans in a newly emergent liberal society. More specifically, it considers how the new nation's political father figures were able to retain virtually uncontested legitimacy and power to regulate the terms of citizens' marital relations as well as their nonmarital sexual experiments. It shows how, regardless of the widespread rhetoric of liberty and the robust growth of individualism, civic leaders and public officials in the new Republic succeeded in reconciling core aspects of traditional patriarchal authority and the new liberalism. The book argues that local leaders policed people's sexual behavior based on patriarchal authority by exercising a caring paternalism in the name of people's welfare and liberty, thereby eliciting popular consent and keeping alive what it calls a “resilient patriarchy.”
