Marriage Discourses

Author : Jowan A. Mohammed,Frank Jacob
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110751536

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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 : Jowan A. Mohammed,Frank Jacob
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : Laura L. Paterson,Georgina Turner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000960594

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Approaches to Discourses of Marriage by Laura L. Paterson,Georgina Turner Pdf

How do people talk about marriage? Who gets to do the talking? When, why, where and how do these things change? From the experiences of women forced to marry as children to those of older women who never married, from investigations of cross-border marriage applications to Christian pastors’ sermons on divorce, from oppositional media discussions of same-sex marriage to pro-marriage equality protest signs: this collection presents research from across the globe addressing the often shifting, context-specific ways that we talk about marriage. Developed from the work of the UK-based Discourses of Marriage Research Group and a two-day conference drawing together scholars interested in talk of marriage and related topics, this interdisciplinary volume brings together linguists, psychologists, and film makers and draws on data from the UK, Germany, Taiwan, the US, Belgium, and Turkey. It is intended both as a survey of some contemporary trends in research on marriage and as a foundation for further research. The chapters in this book, except for chapters 1 and 7, were originally published as a special issue of the journal Critical Discourse Studies. This volume comes with a new introduction.

Author : Richard Mallette
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803231954

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Spenser and the Discourses of Reformation England by Richard Mallette Pdf

Spenser and the Discourses of Reformation England is a wide-ranging exploration of the relationships among literature, religion, and politics in Renaissance England. Richard Mallette demonstrates how one of the great masterpieces of English literature, Edmund Spenser?s The Faerie Queene, reproduces, criticizes, parodies, and transforms the discourses of England during that remarkable political and literary era. ø According to Mallette, The Faerie Queene not only represents Reformation values but also challenges, questions, and frequently undermines Protestant assumptions. Building upon recent scholarship, particularly new historicism, Protestant poetics, feminism, and gender theory, this ambitious study traces The Faerie Queene?s linkage of religion to political and social realms. Mallette?s study expands traditional theological conceptions of Renaissance England, showing how the poem incorporates and transmutes religious discourses and thereby tests, appraises, and questions their avowals and assurances. The book?s focus on religious discourses leads Mallette to examine how such matters as marriage, gender, the body, revenge, sexuality, and foreign policy were represented?in both traditional and subversive ways?in Spenser?s influential masterpiece. ø A bold and finely argued contribution to our understanding of Spenser, Reformation thought, and Renaissance literature and society, Mallette?s study will add to the ongoing reassessment of England during this important period.

Author : Thomas De Witt Talmage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Marriage
ISBN : HARVARD:32044087505327

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The Wedding Ring by Thomas De Witt Talmage Pdf

Author : Maritere López
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317149804

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Discourses and Representations of Friendship in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1700 by Maritere López Pdf

Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection examines the varied and complex ways in which early modern Europeans imagined, discussed and enacted friendship, a fundamentally elective relationship between individuals otherwise bound in prescribed familial, religious and political associations. The volume is carefully designed to reflect the complexity and multi-faceted nature of early modern friendship, and each chapter comprises a case study of specific contexts, narratives and/or lived friendships. Contributors include scholars of British, French, Italian and Spanish culture, offering literary, historical, religious, and political perspectives. Discourses and Representations of Friendship in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 lays the groundwork for a taxonomy of the transformations of friendship discourse in Western Europe and its overlap with emergent views of the psyche and the body, as well as of the relationship of the self to others, classes, social institutions and the state.

Author : Karen Tracy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190217969

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Discourse, Identity, and Social Change in the Marriage Equality Debates by Karen Tracy Pdf

Karen Tracy examines the identity-work of judges and attorneys in state supreme courts as they debated the legality of existing marriage laws. Exchanges in state appellate courts are juxtaposed with the talk that occurred between citizens and elected officials in legislative hearings considering whether to revise state marriage laws. The book's analysis spans ten years, beginning with the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of sodomy laws in 2003 and ending in 2013 when the U.S. Supreme Court declared the federal government's Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional, and it particularly focuses on how social change was accomplished through and reflected in these law-making and law-interpreting discourses. Focal materials are the eight cases about same-sex marriage and civil unions that were argued in state supreme courts between 2005 and 2009, and six of a larger number of hearings that occurred in state judicial committees considering bills regarding who should be able to marry. Tracy concludes with analysis of the 2011 Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on DOMA, comparing it to the initial 1996 hearing and to the 2013 Supreme Court oral argument about it. The book shows that social change occurred as the public discourse that treated sexual orientation as a lifestyle was replaced with a public discourse of gays and lesbians as a legitimate category of citizen.

Author : David F. Mullins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351598385

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Sacred Marriages by David F. Mullins Pdf

This book represents a new direction in the study of religion and marriage by using a postmodern theoretical framework focusing on gendered discourse and culture, to examine the meaning of sacred marriage within social contexts. Drawing upon data from in-depth interviews of couples in long-term, sacred marriages living in the American Midwest, together with an analysis of Christian marriage advice manuals, Sacred Marriages explores how couples use religious and nonreligious discourses and cultures to give their marriages meaning, and how those sacred meanings are used in their daily lives and the spaces that they embody. The study shows how religious and secular beliefs are combined to formulate cultural strategies for approaching the sacralization of marriage, and how religious and nonreligious discourses and cultures are ordered, depending on circumstances and social contexts. This often results in other relationships being subordinated in favour of the sacred bond believed to exist between husband and wife. The book argues that sacred marriage is a malleable concept, as people bend religious culture to form new and altered sacred marriages during emotional extremes. A thoughtful examination of long-term Christian marriages, this volume will appeal to scholars of religion and sociology with interests in marriage and the family.

Author : Julie McBrien,Annelies Moors
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789462703810

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Muslim Marriage and Non-Marriage by Julie McBrien,Annelies Moors Pdf

Unconventional Muslim marriages have been topics of heated public debate. Around the globe, religious scholars, policy makers, political actors, media personalities, and women’s activists discuss, promote, or reject unregistered, transnational, interreligious and other boundary-crossing marriages. Couples entering into such marriages, however, often have different concerns from those publicly discussed. Based on ethnographic research in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, the chapters of this volume examine couples’ motivations for, aspirations about, and abilities to enter into these marriages. The contributions show the diverse ways in which such marriages are concluded, and inquire into how they are performed, authorized or contested as Muslim marriages. These marriages may challenge existing ties of belonging and transform boundaries between religious and other communities, but they may also, and sometimes simultaneously, reproduce and solidify them. Building on insights from different disciplines, both from the social sciences (anthropology, political science, gender and sexuality studies) and from the humanities (history, Islamic legal studies, religious studies), the authors address a wide range of controversial Muslim marriages (unregistered, interreligious, transnational, etc.), and include the views of religious scholars, state authorities, and political actors and activists, as well as the couples themselves, their families, and their wider social circle.

Author : Henrice Altink
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134268696

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Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780–1838 by Henrice Altink Pdf

This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts--motherhood, intimate relationships, and work--in both pro- and antislavery writings. Altink examines how British abolitionists and pro-slavery activists represented the slave women to their audiences and explains not only the purposes that these representations served, but also their effects on slave women’s lives.

Author : T. De Witt Talmage
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547309871

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The Wedding Ring by T. De Witt Talmage Pdf

The Wedding Ring is a collection of conversations and investigations into marriage for prospective husbands and wives. Contents: "The Choice of a Wife, The Choice of a Husband, Clandestine Marriage, Duties of Husbands to Wives, Duties of Wives to Husbands, Costume, and Morals, Husbands and Wives, Matrimonial Discords, Hotels Versus Home, Easy Divorce, Maternity, The Children's Patrimony, The Mother of All, Sisterly Influence, Trials of Housekeeping, Woman Enthroned, Old Folks' Visit, Home, Sweet Home."

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061020932

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Discourses on Love, Marriage, and Transgression in Medieval and Early Modern Literature by Albrecht Classen Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004421332

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The Hagiographical Experiment: Developing Discourses of Sainthood by Anonim Pdf

The Hagiographical Experiment: Developing Discourses of Sainthood throws fresh light on narratives about Christian holy men and women from Late Antiquity to Byzantium. Rather than focusing on the relationship between story and reality, it asks what literary choices authors made in depicting their heroes and heroines: how they positioned the narrator, how they responded to existing texts, how they utilised or transcended genre conventions for their own purposes, and how they sought to relate to their audiences. The literary focus of the chapters assembled here showcases the diversity of hagiographical texts written in Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac, as well as pointing out the ongoing conversations that connect them. By asking these questions of this diverse group of texts, it illuminates the literary development of hagiography in the late antique, Byzantine, and medieval periods.

Author : J. Richards
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230505063

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Early Modern Civil Discourses by J. Richards Pdf

This collection explores the concept of civility in the early modern period. It addresses a range of writings in English and Scots - among them, conduct manuals, colonial tracts, diaries, letters, dialogues, poetry, drama, chronicles - by English, Welsh and Scots men and women in and about the Atlantic archipelago. It explores the many meanings of civility in the early modern period; it recovers some of the lost associations of civility as well as the complex use of the adjectives 'civil' and 'barbarous' in cultural and colonial encounters.

Author : Esra Bayhantopçu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040006153

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Child Marriage in Türkiye by Esra Bayhantopçu Pdf

This book provides a critical examination of the problem of underage marriage in Türkiye through a sociological perspective considering gender perceptions, cultural norms, and historical and political contexts. The author conducts a comprehensive analysis of the problem by focusing on the lived experiences and narratives of women who married before the age of 18. Face-to-face, in-depth, and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 women who married at a child age to identify the causes and consequences of the marriage of underage girls and to explore how these women perceive both their own identities and the broader issue of child marriage. Employing critical discourse analysis, the author scrutinizes these interviews through the theoretical lenses of gender, identity, and ideology, all while remaining attuned to feminist perspectives. These combined methodologies allow the author to reveal the hidden dimensions of the problem, examining the feelings, stories, behaviours, and beliefs of real women who have married as children. Finally, constructive solutions are proposed for the elimination of the child marriage problem, not only in Türkiye, but in countries across the world. The book will interest those working and studying in an array of fields, including sociology, gender studies, and Turkish culture and society, as well as anyone with a general interest in the problem of underage marriage.