Showing papers on "Love marriage published in 2003"

Love, marriage, and divorce: Newlyweds' stress hormones foreshadow relationship changes

Abstract: Neuroendocrine function, assessed in 90 couples during their first year of marriage (Time 1), was related to marital dissolution and satisfaction 10 years later. Compared to those who remained married, epinephrine levels of divorced couples were 34% higher during a Time 1 conflict discussion, 22% higher throughout the day, and both epinephrine and norepinephrine were 16% higher at night. Among couples who were still married, Time 1 conflict ACTH levels were twice as high among women whose marriages were troubled 10 years later than among women whose marriages were untroubled. Couples whose marriages were troubled at follow-up produced 34% more norepinephrine during conflict, 24% more norepinephrine during the daytime, and 17% more during nighttime hours at Time 1 than the untroubled.

Love, Marriage, and Family Ties in the Later Middle Ages

Abstract: Book synopsis: This volume addresses the current fashion for research on the family and domesticity in the past. It draws together work from various disciplines - historical, art-historical and literary - with their very different source materials and from a broad geographical area, including some countries - such as Croatia and Poland - which are not usually considered in standard text books on the medieval family. This volume considers the various affective relationships within and around the family and the manner in which those relationships were regulated and ritualized in more public arenas. Despite their disparate approaches and geographical spread, these essays share many thematic concerns; the ideologies which structured gender roles, inheritance rights, incest law and the ethics of domestic violence, for example, are all considered here. This collection originates from the Leeds IMC in 2001 when the special strand was entitled Domus and Familia and attracted huge participation. This book aims to reflect that richness and variety whilst contributing to an expanding area of historical enquiry.

Love, marriage, and desire in the era of the new woman

Abstract: Recently, a number of critical studies have focused on the ways in which New Woman fiction reconfigured nineteenth-century concepts of woman and modernity. The fictional New Woman was a complex and intriguing character, one who defined herself in opposition to the image of the traditional domestic heroine. However, to be a woman and to reject normative womanly behavior was to assert an identity whose nature and value were ambiguous at best, and which had no defined space within traditional social structures. In consequence, the fictional New Woman, despite her claims of independence and isolation, could not escape narratives of marriage and romance. Whether she chose to participate in them or to renounce them, authors continually attempted to work out the ways in which the woman of the future would function within the social structures that commonly defined the course of woman's life in the present. Specifically, in this dissertation, I will examine how nineteenth-century authors imagined the New Woman in relation to her romantic and sexual desires, and juxtapose this with the fictional New Woman's frequent inability to participate in marriage, the social structure that traditionally regulated and circumscribed women's desires. Although many authors wrote about New Women characters falling in love, these authors often were unable to imagine these same New Women characters in domestic spaces� playing traditional roles of wife and mother. Additionally, despite the occasional narrative of romantic and sexual fantasy, a majority ofjin-de-siecle authors chose not to promote a society that allowed women to participate in sexual relationships outside of marriage. Thus, I would argue that the romance plots in New Woman novels generally conclude in one of two ways. Authors either show New Women changing and losing

Love, Marriage, and Motherhood: Changing Expectations of Women in Late OttomanIstanbul

Abstract: This study examines the early work of famous novelist Halide Edip Adivar against the background of public discussions on women and gender in late-Ottoman society. Gender relations and women's issues constituted a fertile ground for the debate about social transformation. Edip and her feminist peers wrote about passionate love, companionship in marriage, the significance of motherhood, and women's legal rights in their works. This reflects women's vision of new gender relations and provides evidence for their contributions to the forging of Turkish modernity prior to the founding of the Turkish Republic. It also illustrates the hybrid nature of culture, which resists unconditional adoption of Western models. Love, Marriage, and Motherhood: Changing Expectations of Women in Late-Ottoman Istanbul Much has been written about Halide Edip’s literary and political career, public and personal achievements. Today, her work is largely considered as an integral part of the Turkish literary canon. But the distinguished place she occupies in the mainstream of Turkish culture and literature is mainly due to the increased incorporation of nationalism into her personal and public narrative. Assessment of her work as a writer, translator, and novelist rarely goes beyond the celebration of an exceptional Turkish woman—a nationalist—who courageously rose to historical and literary eminence during the first quarter of the twentieth century. Moreover, many of these accounts tend to set Edip dramatically apart from her cultural contemporaries, rather than connecting her to her cultural milieu. Beyond this, the scope of academic work on Edip is limited, except for