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Marriage Migration Family and Citizenship in Asia

Marriage Migration Family and Citizenship in Asia

Amidst the increasing global trend of cross-border marriage migration this book offers timely theoretical and empirical insights into contemporary debates about migration and citizenship. Extant scholarship on marriage migration and citizenship have concentrated on East-West inter-cultural marriages and tended to approach citizenship as an individual-centred concept linked to the nation-state thus fading the family into the background. Focusing on cross-border marriages within Asia a region where collectivist and familistic values are still prevalent this book points to the importance of going beyond the state-individual nexus to conceptualise and foreground the family as a strategic site where citizenship is mediated negotiated and experienced. Through six critical and in-depth case studies on cross-border marriages between East Southeast and South Asia this book reveals how nation-states mobilize patriarchal notions of the family for its citizenship project; how formal frameworks of citizenship structure the trajectory and circumstances of cross-border families; how the repercussions of marriage migrants' citizenship are experienced and negotiated across generations; and how the tensions between the individual the family and the state are produced along gender class race/ethnic religious cultural geographical and generational boundaries. Collectively this book calls for a rethinking of citizenship from an individual-centred proposition to a family-level concept. Its wealth of case studies and examples make it an essential resource for students academics and researchers of Sociology Geography Anthropology Politics International Development Studies and Asian Studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies. | Marriage Migration Family and Citizenship in Asia

GBP 130.00
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Sexual Adjustment in Marriage

Sexual Adjustment in Marriage

In the 1950s sexual instruction was still a considerable problem despite the very great freedom of discussion that was common. The high level of so-called sexual neurosis among women the problems of sexual compatibility and birth control and the spread of venereal disease all bore witness to the need for responsible information. Originally published in 1954 Dr Henry Olsen in this comprehensive survey of the problems of sexual adjustment draws fully from a very wide and thoroughly grounded experience. Since 1937 he had been closely connected with the instruction in sexual hygiene in Denmark where the majority of public schools and high schools included it as part of the syllabus. Of the 1 232 public libraries at the time all but three had copies of his Textbook on Sexual Hygiene. Sexual Adjustment in Marriage is admirably clear in style and arrangement. It is divided into subjects of particular importance such as The Sex Organs; Living Together; Disturbances in a Couple’s Sex Life; Sex Life of the Unmarried; Fertilization Pregnancy and Childbirth; Sexual Abnormalities; Diseases of Sex Life. Each of the sixteen main sections is divided into chapters within which every topic discussed is numbered. Reference to any part of the book is thus extremely simple. Knowledge alone cannot prevent all disasters in the difficult field of sexual life. But this book aimed to give all that one needed for a basic understanding of the elementary laws – from the genes and chromosomes of one’s own make-up to the sex education of one’s children. Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context. This book is a re-issue originally published in 1954. The language used and views portrayed are a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.

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The Visual Rhetoric of the Married Laity in Late Antiquity Iconography the Christianization of Marriage and Alternatives to the Ascetic Ideal

The Visual Rhetoric of the Married Laity in Late Antiquity Iconography the Christianization of Marriage and Alternatives to the Ascetic Ideal

This study examines third- and fourth-century portraits of married Christians and associated images reading them as visual rhetoric in early Christian conversations about marriage and celibacy and recovering lay perspectives underrepresented or missing in literary sources. Historians of early Christianity have grown increasingly aware that written sources display an enthusiasm for asceticism and sexual renunciation that was far from representative of the lives of most early Christians. Often called a “silent majority ” the married laity in fact left behind a significant body of work in the material record. Particularly in and around Rome they commissioned and used such objects as sarcophagi paintings glass vessels finger rings luxury silver other jewellery items gems and seals that bore their portraits and other iconographic forms of self-representation. This study is the first to undertake a sustained exploration of these material sources in the context of early Christian discourses and practices related to marriage sexuality and celibacy. Reading this visual evidence increases understanding of the population who created it the religious commitments they asserted and the comparatively moderate forms of piety they set forth as meritorious alternatives to the ascetic ideal. In their visual rhetoric these artifacts and images comprise additional voices in Late Antique conversations about idealized ways of Christian life and ultimately provide a fuller picture of the early Christian world. Plentifully illustrated with photographs and drawings this volume provides readers access to primary material evidence. Such evidence like textual sources require critical interpretation; this study sets forth a careful methodology for iconographic analysis and applies it to identify the potential intentions of patrons and artists and the perceptions of viewers. It compares iconography to literary sources and ritual practices as part of the interpretive process clarifying the ways images had a rhetorical edge and contributed to larger conversations. Accessibly written The Visual Rhetoric of the Married Laity in Late Antiquity is of interest to students and scholars working on Late Antiquity early Christian and late Roman social history marriage and celibacy in early Christianity and early Christian Roman and Byzantine art. | The Visual Rhetoric of the Married Laity in Late Antiquity Iconography the Christianization of Marriage and Alternatives to the Ascetic Ideal

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Families without Fathers Fatherhood Marriage and Children in American Society

Families without Fathers Fatherhood Marriage and Children in American Society

The American family is changing. Divorce single parents and stepfamilies are redefi ning the ways we live together and raise our children. Many experts feel these seemingly inevitable changes should be celebrated; they claim that the new families which often lack a strong father are actually healthier than traditional two-parent families—or at the very least do children no harm. But as David Popenoe shows in Families Without Fathers this optimistic view is severely misguided. Examining evidence from social and behavioral science history and evolutionary biology Popenoe shows why fathers today are deserting their families in record numbers. The disintegration of the child-centered two parent family—especially in the inner cities where as many as two in three children are growing up without their fathers—and the weakening commitment of fathers to their children that more and more follows divorce are central causes of many of our worst individual and social problems. Juvenile delinquency drug and alcohol abuse teenage pregnancy welfare dependency and child poverty can be directly traced to fathers' lack of involvement in their children's lives. Our situation will only get worse Popenoe warns unless men are willing to renew their commitment to their marriages and to their children. Yet he is not just an alarmist. He suggests concrete policies and new ways of thinking and acting that will help all fathers improve their marriages and family lives and tells us what we as individuals and as a society can do to support and strengthen the most important thing a man can do. | Families without Fathers Fatherhood Marriage and Children in American Society

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Middle Class African Marriage A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants

Middle Class African Marriage A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants

In the 1970s among peoples of the third world migration paid employment and urban living had caused changes in domestic economies in decision making in households and in the sexual division of labour and power. This was particularly so in areas formerly subjected to colonial domination and therefore the influence of European mores and institutions. This book previously published in 1974 as Marriage Among a Matrilineal Elite this edition in 1981 provides one of the few detailed accounts of such changes by a writer who has lived the kind of life she describes that of the urban educated Akan of Southern Ghana – people who have migrated from farming and fishing villages to Accra the capital to find employment in government institutions after protracted higher education often overseas. The study is particularly interesting because it focuses upon people from an ethnic area practicing matrilineal descent and inheritance in which women and men have traditionally both worked in agriculture: in which husbands and wives have customarily resided in separate houses affording both sexes considerable autonomy as spouses and in which women have held important political offices as well as sharing responsibilities for maintenance of dependent children. Akan women provide an important model of responsible energetic females who have in the past and to some extent in the present avoided the domestic trap of wifely dependence. But as we read the trap is open to those who forsake traditional patterns of economic endeavour or whose resources vis á vis their men folk are reduced. The book was also a significant contribution to the comparative sociology of the family at the time providing an exercise in methodology in which the aim has been to evolve ways of documenting and comparing two major aspects of change in conjugal family relationships. On one hand the division of labour resources and power between spouses – the ‘jointness or segregation’ of the conjugal role relationship – and on the other the extent to which the conjugal family is a functionally discrete unit in a number of domestic activity areas: in popular and ambiguous terms whether the family is ‘extended’ or ‘nuclear’. The use of sociological concepts developed in other areas of the world gives this book a significant position in the development of a cross culturally valid sociology of the family. The subject matter and conceptual frameworks used here will thus be of interest to sociologists economists and anthropologists in general and to specialists in African and Black studies Women’s Studies and Sex Roles in particular as well as to the male and female feminists around the world. | Middle Class African Marriage A Family Study of Ghanaian Senior Civil Servants

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Marriages in Trouble The Process of Seeking Help