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from welcoming" (Watson, 1991, p. 350). The traditional rural peasant view of daughters is still that they are "excess baggage." W...

also in case law. Case law has given many good and worthwhile definition of marriage, one f the first is in the of Hyde v. Hyde an...

was viewed in the modern era as not so much a disease but was seen as lack of upbringing and evil intent. Gay relationships were s...

manner inconsistent with the intentions of the people in enacting that provision. Yet that is precisely what has happened in the S...

homosexuality was not a lifestyle in the eighteenth century. Rather, having sex with someone of the same gender was something that...

opens "Marriage" delivers a millenarian prophecy that identifies Christ, revolution and apocalypse and, in so doing, "satanizes" a...

Anabaptists were, in their early history, very prosecuted and many were even put to death by the Catholics and Protestants (The Am...

In fact, Wilde seems to be making important commentary on Victorian society itself, contending that something may reveal a perfect...

women being "accepted in the diaconate which is a part of Holy Orders" (Womens Ordination Conference, n.d.; also see The Campaign ...

of the couple. As Shakespeare juxtaposes their feelings of love, we find that they have not even met. Ferdinand is awakened by the...

acknowledge Muhammad as Allahs Prophet and offered encouragement and support for her husband throughout her life. Like his first...

of a European spinster. Rama calls this an "aspect of the New Africa" (24), a reference to modern, global politics affecting the l...

the wives would remain with their own family. After the Church organized the marriage, couples were encouraged to set up their own...

is considered a step in the right direction for women of the era who were trapped in unhealthy and unequal marriages. Regardless o...

straight ahead and never acknowledged him, as women all about him were flirting and trying to get his attention. Naturally, it wa...

marrying. This would indicate that they are either not capable of making the same commitments, or that there is an inherent wrongn...

to a place where she thinks that such fantasies can be obtained. Now, while such romance can be found, it is often tempered with a...

forms of relationships that occur between unmarried lovers, which involved clandestine encounters. This aspect of Samoan courtship...

and hoor; /Thanne is a wife the fruit of his tresor" (Chaucer 55-58). At this point, it is not certain that Januarie sees, as ce...

In five pages a textual overview includes the authors' explanation of 4 marriage types. There are no other sources listed....

with that described in her "Vindication". Henrik Ibsen wrote "A Dolls House" in 1879 during a time when womens rights were ...

In five pages this paper examines the contemporary world and the social problem of marriage. Four sources are cited in the biblio...

marriages to lose many of the foundations that essentially keep a marriage together. The Unraveling of Marriages People who lo...

He figures thousands on luxury items alone" (Carver NA). From these lines we note that the couple is likely very superficial an...

the elements that speak of such disappointments. The paper finishes with a brief discussion of the works discussed. Story of an ...

In twelve pages this research paper compares and contrasts Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Haywood's Fantomina in their presentat...

being primarily procreative, there is also a distinction made between marriages which cannot be consummated or which are sterile, ...

playing at work is also a reasonable contention: there is, as he says, enough productive physical work available within a communit...

spouses, battered and emotionally wasted by the trauma of their loss of their children. While Sue, perhaps, takes on too much of t...

and their domestic responsibilities before themselves (Varma and Agrawal, 1992). In order to initiate sociological advancement, m...