Divorce Talk : : Women and Men Make Sense of Personal Relationships / / Catherine Riessman.
Taking a new look at divorce in America, Catherine Reissman shows how divorce is socially shared, and how it takes crucially different forms for women and men. Drawing on interviews with adults who are divorcing, she treats their accounts as texts to be interpreted, as templates for understanding co...
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Riessman, Catherine, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Divorce Talk : Women and Men Make Sense of Personal Relationships / Catherine Riessman. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [1990] ©1990 1 online resource (292 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1 Making Sense of Divorce: Personal Meaning in a Social Context -- CHAPTER 2 Mourning Different Dreams: Gender and the Companionate Marriage -- CHAPTER 3 The Teller's Problem: Four Narrative Accounts of Divorce -- CHAPTER 4 Personal Trauma in Women and Men: The Private Experience of Social Trouble -- CHAPTER 5 Starting a New Life: The Positive Consequences of Divorce -- CHAPTER 6 Divorce Is Here to Stay: What Can We Learn from It? -- APPENDIX A Narrative about Methods -- NOTES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Taking a new look at divorce in America, Catherine Reissman shows how divorce is socially shared, and how it takes crucially different forms for women and men. Drawing on interviews with adults who are divorcing, she treats their accounts as texts to be interpreted, as templates for understanding contemporary beliefs about personal relationships. Riessman looks at the ideology of the companionate marriage: husband and wife should be each other's closest companion, and in marriage one should achieve emotial intimacy and sexual fulfillment. These beliefs imply a level of equality that rarely exists. In reality, most wives are subordinate to their husbands, most husbands want neither "deep talk" nor small talk that women want, and many husbands resent their wife's ties to kin and friends. To explain divorce, women and men construct gendered visions of what marriage should provide, and at the same time they mourn gender divisions and blame their divorces on them. Riessman examines the stories people tell about their marriages--the protagonists, inciting conditions, and culminating events--and how these narrative structures provide ways to persuade both teller and listener that divorce was justified. Although divorce is invariably stressful, many people believe that men suffer less than women. This is an artifact of what Riessman calls the "feminization of psychological distress"--traditional ways of measuring distress reflect women's idioms, not men's. Departing from a literature that casts divorce in only negative terms, she finds paradoxically that women sense rewards, even as they report hardship. There is a shakeup in gender roles, and women more than men feel they gain a fuller idea of who they are. The author allows us to enter the points of view of her subjects, while her analytic approach makes links between the self and society. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024) FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110663334 https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813555959 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813555959 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813555959/original |
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