Marriage Bureau

Author : Mary Oliver,Mary Benedetta
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781914169274

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Marriage Bureau by Mary Oliver,Mary Benedetta Pdf

At a time when internet dating is booming across all ages and classes and women are setting the agenda as never before, some things have not changed: You can’t always leave love to chance. And whether the search begins with an app in the 21st century or a visit to two young but savvy matchmakers in the 1940s, the desire for lifelong happiness with a perfectly suited partner remains the same. This is the remarkable true story of the Marriage Bureau; its successes, its rare failures and its many clients, told with wit and honesty in Mary and Heather’s own words.

Author : Penrose Halson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062562678

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The Marriage Bureau by Penrose Halson Pdf

A riveting glimpse of life and love during and after World War II—a heart-warming, touching, and thoroughly absorbing true story of a world gone by. In the spring of 1939, with the Second World War looming, two determined twenty-four-year-olds, Heather Jenner and Mary Oliver, decided to open a marriage bureau. They found a tiny office on London’s Bond Street and set about the delicate business of matchmaking. Drawing on the bureau’s extensive archives, Penrose Halson—who many years later found herself the proprietor of the bureau—tells their story, and those of their clients. From shop girls to debutantes; widowers to war veterans, clients came in search of security, social acceptance, or simply love. And thanks to the meticulous organization and astute intuition of the Bureau’s matchmakers, most found what they were looking for. Penrose Halson draws from newspaper and magazine articles, advertisements, and interviews with the proprietors themselves to bring the romance and heartbreak of matchmaking during wartime to vivid, often hilarious, life in this unforgettable story of a most unusual business. “A book full of charm and hilarity.”—Country Life

Author : Farahad Zama
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101060155

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The Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama Pdf

Bored with retirement, Mr. Ali sets up a desk, puts up a sign, and waits for customers for his new matchmaking business. Some clients are a mystery. Some are a challenge. Mr. Ali's assistant, Aruna, finds it a learning experience. But without a dowry, Aruna has no expectation of a match for herself. Then again, as people go about planning their lives, sometimes fate is making other arrangements.

Author : Aparna Bhat,Aatreyee Sen,Uma Pradhan
Publisher : Socio Legal Information Cent
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Child mariage
ISBN : 9788189479022

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Child Marriages and the Law in India by Aparna Bhat,Aatreyee Sen,Uma Pradhan Pdf

This Book, Based On The 2004 National Consultation Organized By Human Rights Law Network, Haq, Establishes That The Incidences And Causes Of Child Marriages Haven`T Been Documented Adequately, And That The Position Of Law Itself Is Dubious.

Author : Mary Oliver,Mary Benedetta
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781914169267

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Marriage Bureau by Mary Oliver,Mary Benedetta Pdf

At a time when internet dating is booming across all ages and classes and women are setting the agenda as never before, some things have not changed: You can’t always leave love to chance. And whether the search begins with an app in the 21st century or a visit to two young but savvy matchmakers in the 1940s, the desire for lifelong happiness with a perfectly suited partner remains the same. This is the remarkable true story of the Marriage Bureau; its successes, its rare failures and its many clients, told with wit and honesty in Mary and Heather’s own words.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : LLMC
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Army Lawyer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jowan A. Mohammed,Frank Jacob
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110751451

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Marriage Discourses by Jowan A. Mohammed,Frank Jacob Pdf

Marriage was historically not only a romantic ideal, but a tool of exploitation of women in many regards. Women were often considered commodities and marriage was far away from the romantic stereotypes people relate to it today. While marriages served as diplomatic tools or means of political legitimization in the past, the discourses about marital relationships changed and women expressed their demands more openly. Discourses about marriage in history and literature naturally became more and more heated, especially during the "long" 19th century, when marriages were contested by social reformers or political radicals, male and female alike. The present volume provides a discussion of the role of marriage and the discourses about in different chronological and geographical contexts and shows which arguments played an important role for the demand for more equality in martial relationships. It focuses on marriage discourses, may they have been legal or rather socio-political ones. In addition, the disputes about marriage in literary works of the 19th and 20th centuries are presented to complement the historical debates.

Author : Madhav Jasapara
Publisher : Madhav Jasapara
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Bharat City Guide Season 2 by Madhav Jasapara Pdf

This Season 2 edition is an endeavor to cover all the stages of wedding planning i.e. Pre, present and post scenario,giving you the most useful and memorable tips covering all important aspects of a Wedding from Designing wedding cards to Cosmetics, Clothing to Skin Care, Honeymoon luggage to Travel plans

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
ISBN : UFL:30031002253309

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The Army Lawyer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Laurel Kendall
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520202009

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Getting Married in Korea by Laurel Kendall Pdf

This work explores what it means to be modern and what it means to be Korean in a culture where courtship and marriage are often the crucible in which notions of gender and class are cast and recast. Touching on a number of important issues—identity, romantic love, women’s work, marriage negotiations, and wedding ceremonies—Laurel Kendall gives us a new appreciation for how Koreans have adapted this pivotal social practice to the astounding changes of the past century. Kendall attended her first Korean wedding in 1970, soon after she arrived in the country with the Peace Corps. Years later, as a seasoned anthropologist, she began interviewing both working-class and middle-class couples, matchmakers, purveyors of dowry goods, and proprietors of wedding halls. She consulted etiquette handbooks and women’s magazines and analyzed cartoons, photographs, and weddings themselves. The result is an engaging account of how marriage matches are made, how families proceed through the rites, how they finance ceremonies and elaborate exchanges of ritual goods, and how these practices are integral to the construction of adult identities and notions of ideal women and men. The book is also a reflection on what it means to write “Korea” in a complex and ever changing social milieu.

Author : Gert Vermeulen
Publisher : Maklu
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Child sexual abuse
ISBN : 9789046601167

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EU Quality Standards in Support of the Fight Against Trafficking in Human Beings and Sexual Exploitation of Children by Gert Vermeulen Pdf

Author : William Kuby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107160262

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Conjugal Misconduct by William Kuby Pdf

Examines the experiences of couples in controversial unions and the legal and cultural backlash against contested marital arrangements in twentieth-century America. Will appeal to readers studying marriage law, gender, sexuality, class, and race in the US, and those seeking historical insight into the recent debates over the definition of marriage.

Author : Suzanne Poirier
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Chicago Sun-Times
ISBN : 0252021479

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Chicago's War on Syphilis, 1937-40 by Suzanne Poirier Pdf

"An eye for colorful vignettes and anecdotes. On target! She recognizes the importance of her subject." -- Thomas N. Bonner, author of To the Ends of the Earth: Women's Search for Education in Medicine Those struggling to deal with the AIDS epidemic might learn valuable lessons from the earlier struggle of the U.S. to deal with syphilis. Here, Suzanne Poirier tells the story of the Chicago Syphilis Control Program launched in 1937 by the Chicago Board of Health and the U.S. Public Health Service and severely limited from the start because of the refusal of government, the press, and the public to confront directly the issues underlying the problem. Poirier's narrative is memorable for its vivid scenes, colorful characters that include Chicago's "clap doctor," Dr. Ben Reitman, and its account of the heated debate that surrounded the effort. In an epilogue, the author discusses similarities between current efforts against AIDS and the handling and politics of the syphilis problem in the late 1930s.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : United States
ISBN : UCBK:C035737804

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Vital Statistics of the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : Shruti Chaudhry
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438485591

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Moving for Marriage by Shruti Chaudhry Pdf

Shortlisted for the 2023 BASAS Book Prize presented by British Association for South Asian Studies Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a village in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Moving for Marriage compares the lived experiences of women in "regional" marriages (that conform to caste and community norms within a relatively short distance) with women in "cross-regional" marriages (that traverse caste, linguistic, and state boundaries and entail long-distance migration within India). By demonstrating how geographic distance and regional origins make a difference in these women's experiences, Shruti Chaudhry challenges stereotypes and moral panics about cross-regional brides who are brought from far away. Indeed, Moving for Marriage highlights the ways in which the post-marital experiences of both categories of wives in this study—their work and social relationships, their sexual lives and childbearing decisions, and their ability to access support in everyday contexts and in the event of marital distress—are shaped by factors such as caste, class/poverty, religion, and stage in the life-course. In focusing on this Global South context, Chaudhry makes novel arguments about the development of intimacy within marriages that are inherently unequal and even violent, thereby offering an alternative to Euro-American understandings of intimacy and women's agency.