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Love marriage
About: Love marriage is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 190 publications have been published within this topic receiving 2465 citations.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used ethnographic data collected with Muslim women teachers from rural and low-income communities in Pakistan to show how empowerment for these educated women meant access to education.
Abstract: Using ethnographic data collected with Muslim women teachers from rural and low-income communities in Pakistan, this article shows how empowerment for these educated women meant access to d
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on correspondence between members of the African National Congress in exile based in Tanzania and the organisation's chief representative in the region concerning permission, recognition and guidance on love, marriage and family-related matters in the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s.
Abstract: Most studies about the South African liberation struggle have focused on political and strategic concerns at the level of formal organisations and their leadership. Yet the anti-apartheid struggle also impacted on personal relationships and the social life of those who put their lives in its service. This article draws on correspondence between members of the African National Congress in exile based in Tanzania and the organisation’s chief representative in the region concerning permission, recognition and guidance on love, marriage and family-related matters in the period from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. It analyses how the demands of the struggle, and the difficult exile context, shaped love and family relationships and conceptions, and the ways in which individual cadres negotiated their personal lives while engaging in a political struggle as part of a collective movement. The disciplinary and parental role that the ANC in exile exercised through the bureaucratic process developed to ma...
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TL;DR: This paper revisited a significant idea at the core of contemporary debates in family law: the channelling function of family law, which is to support fundamental social institutions, like marriage and parenthood, and to steer people into participating in them.
Abstract: This Article revisits a significant idea at the core of contemporary debates in family law: the channelling function of family law. This idea is that a basic purpose of family law is to support fundamental social institutions, like marriage and parenthood, and to steer people into participating in them. Family law scholar Carl Schneider helpfully invited attention to this familiar idea in an essay published fifteen years ago. Challenges to the conventional sequence (expressed in the childhood rhyme) of love-marriage-baby carriage posed by changing social practices, rights claims made by various groups within society that lead to legislative change and judicial rulings, by technological developments in the area of reproduction, and by changes in family law toward a more functional definition of family changes provide a valuable opportunity to revisit Schneider's notion of the channelling function of family law and, in particular, how it relates to other important functions of family law. As this sequence of love-marriage-baby carriage is being altered and challenged in perhaps unprecedented ways, the question arises whether the core of ideas that Schneider identifies with the social institutions of marriage and parenthood still retains force, or whether the core is being redefined. At the heart of many contemporary debates about the state of the family and family law is the question of how to assess challenges to this expected sequence of love, marriage, and the baby carriage. The debate over same-sex marriage visibly raises this issue, as does debate over the question, Who is a legal parent? The Article begins with several examples of current social practices that scramble the sequence of love, marriage, and baby carriage, and considers how such practices both recognize and resist the conventional sequence. It then illustrates how the notion of marriage and parenthood as social institutions and the channelling function feature in several recent judicial opinions addressing challenges to state marriage laws brought by same-sex couples or defining the boundaries of legal parenthood. It points out parallels between these judicial opinions and arguments made in public debates over marriage about the channelling function and the role of marriage in ordering or managing heterosexuality. It also highlights how the various functions of family law are in evident tension in some of these opinions. The Article concludes with several reflections about the continuing relevance of the concept of the channelling function in light of challenges to the conventional sequence of love, marriage, and the baby carriage.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the Campbell Allens, an Ulster Presbyterian couple, alongside a number of other Presbyterian families, explored how patriarchy was negotiated within Irish Presbyterian marriages, c. 1780-1850, and argued that patriarchy was not a fixed principle in marriage.
Abstract: Drawing on the marital correspondence of Isabella Marshall and William John Campbell Allen, an Ulster Presbyterian couple, alongside a number of other Presbyterian families, this article explores how patriarchy was negotiated within Irish Presbyterian marriages, c. 1780–1850. It begins by framing the Campbell Allens as a case-study, and examines how the couple negotiated three elements of the patriarchal marriage ideal: love, obedience and the control of economic resources. Next, it uses the family papers and personal correspondence of two other Presbyterian couples, and considers how typical their examples are of love, marriage and patriarchy. This article argues that patriarchy was not a fixed principle in marriage. Rather, it was subject to a constant process of negotiation and refinement during the course of marriage. The roles played by women and men in marriage were also fluid and elastic.
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TL;DR: A close examination of early English city comedies shows that English playgoers were eager to see their cosmopolitan city staged as discussed by the authors, suggesting that status and wealth were far more important to the English than considerations of birthplace and ethnicity.
Abstract: This article questions the orthodox reading of early English city comedies that such plays exhibit intense national or proto-national fervor, especially articulated in terms of anti-alien sentiment. A close examination of The Dutch Courtesan and Englishmen for My Money shows that English playgoers were keen to see their cosmopolitan city staged. Moreover, these plays suggest that when it came to European immigrants to England, status and wealth were far more important to the English than considerations of birthplace and ethnicity.
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