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- Title
Understanding Continuities and Changes in Irish Marriage: Putting Women Centre Stage.
- Authors
O'Connor, Pat
- Abstract
Contemporary changes and continuities in marriage and family life can be understood by focusing on women. Five main patterns may make sense of these phenomena: women's continued identification with and absorption within the family system; negotiation within marriage; a feminised conception of love; an attempt to transform the structural and cultural parameters of marriage and family life; and an uncoupling of the traditional sequence of marriage, sexual activity and procreation. These patterns are not mutually exclusive, but may be differentially adopted by women at different life-stages and from different social classes. It is argued that women are involved in these various responses in an attempt to deal with the reality of the institutional structure of marriage within a social and cultural context which is not always responsive to their needs and interests.
- Subjects
IRELAND; CONTINUITY; FAMILIES; MARRIAGE; SOCIAL conditions of women; SOCIAL science research
- Publication
Irish Journal of Sociology, 1995, Vol 5, Issue 1, p135
- ISSN
0791-6035
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/079160359500500107