Exam 3 Flashcards
Reasons for increase in marriage age
Reasons for the increase in marriage age
- women and career goals
- Cohabitation
Pragmatic Marriage
any union where the interests of the larger community are considered above the interests of the two individuals involved
Hmong People
- gendered
- small and crowded
- women looked for their husbands to not be their best friend/confidant/emotional advisor
- looked to fellow women for this
- husband was like a job description
- viewed men as all the same
- no grand narrative of meeting/marriage
devitalized marriage
younger, less educated, less satisfied, emotionless or no life; categorized by pervasuve dissatisfaction with their marriages
vitalized marriage
good conflict resolution, higher job status, comfortable with their spouse and their habits, older
traditional marriage
religion, younger marriage but long-lasting, most satisfied with raising kids, wives are frequently unemployed
conflicted marriage
constant conflict
Pronatalist Nation/Attitude
a cultural attitude that encourages childbearing (US)
cultural ways childbearing is encouraged:
- taxes
- maternity leave/paid family leave
- social pressures(status, ostracizing)
- baby dolls
- holidays
Motherhood Mystique(Michelle Hoffnung)
- ultimate achievement and fulfillment of womanhood is through motherhood
- the work assigned to mothers fits together nicely with other aspects of life such as work outside the home, relationship to the husband, and relationship to yourself
- feeding
- changing diapers
- physical contact
- to be a good mother, a woman has to enjoy it and all the work that is defined in the mothering role
- a woman’s attitude about mothering will affect her child
Patricia Hill Collins: Challenged motherhood mystique
- you can have help from other women
- blood mothers
- othermothers
- work outside the home to show good motherhood
- visionary pragmatism- the need for black women to balance the need for phy
- Motherhood as a power
Battering
a range of behaviors that includes hitting, kicking, choking, and the use of threatened use of weapons such as guns or knives
Sexual assault
violence in the form of forced sexual acts that include vaginal, oral, or anal penetration; bondage, bestiality, group or gang rape
- 85% are committed by a family member, friend, or acquaintance of the victim
Rape
sexual intercourse forced by one person upon another against the person’s will
intimate partner violence
is perpetuated by someone who is or wishes to be involved in an intimate or dating relationship with another person and are aimed at exercising control by one partner over the other
- inflicted physical injury
- psychological abuse
- sexual assault
- progressive social isolation
- stalking
- deprivation
- intimidation and threats
rape syndrome
men’s proclivity to rape
rape culture
a way of thinking that systematically trivializes, normalizes, or endorse sexual assault
Role Overload
a situation in which a person’s various roles carry more responsibilities than the person can reasonably manage
Second Shift(Arlie Hochschild)
the work that greets us when we come home from work(outside the home)