[PDF] A Society Without Fathers Or Husbands eBook

Author : Cai Hua
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 29,70 MB
Release : 2001-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN :

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A fascinating account of the Na society, which functions without the institution of marriage. The Na of China, farmers in the Himalayan region, live without the institution of marriage. Na brothers and sisters live together their entire lives, sharing household responsibilities and raising the women's children. Because the Na, like all cultures, prohibit incest, they practice a system of sometimes furtive, sometimes conspicuous nighttime encounters at the woman's home. The woman's partners--she frequently has more than one--bear no economic responsibility for her or her children, and "fathers," unless they resemble their children, remain unidentifiable. This lucid ethnographic study shows how a society can function without husbands or fathers. It sheds light on marriage and kinship, as well as on the position of women, the necessary conditions for the acquisition of identity, and the impact of a communist state on a society that it considers backward.

Author : Chuan-kang Shih
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 2009-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804773440

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In this long-awaited ethnography, Chuan-kang Shih details the traditional social and cultural conditions of the Moso, a matrilineal group living on the border of Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces in southwest China. Among the Moso, a majority of the adult population practice a visiting system called tisese instead of marriage as the normal sexual and reproductive institution. Until recently, tisese was noncontractual, nonobligatory, and nonexclusive. Partners lived and worked in separate households. The only prerequisite for a tisese relationship was a mutual agreement between the man and the woman to allow sexual access to each other. In a comprehensive account, Quest for Harmony explores this unique practice specifically, and offers thorough documentation, fine-grained analysis, and an engaging discussion of the people, history, and structure of Moso society. Drawing on the author's extensive fieldwork, conducted from 1987 to 2006, this is the first ethnography of the Moso written in English.

Author : George F. Gilder
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,47 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :

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A chilling indictment on the state of the American family, and the recent drive to deny the fundamental differences between the sexes, Men and Marriage is "an outstandingly important and well-argued book, strangely moving in its combination of scholarly dilligence, common sense, courage, and devotion to the res publica of human civilization".--National Review.

Author : Derek Prince
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 39,8 MB
Release : 2000-02-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1441210776

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Shows in simple terms what it takes to be a successful husband and father and to bless those closest to you--your wife and children.

Author : Choo WaiHong
Publisher : Tauris Parke
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 10,7 MB
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755600953

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In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the "Kingdom of Women," where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. In a mist-shrouded valley on China's invisible border with Tibet is a place known as the "Kingdom of Women," where a small tribe called the Mosuo lives in a cluster of villages that have changed little in centuries. This is one of the last matrilineal societies on earth, where power lies in the hands of women. All decisions and rights related to money, property, land and the children born to them rest with the Mosuo women, who live completely independently of husbands, fathers and brothers, with the grandmother as the head of each family. A unique practice is also enshrined in Mosuo tradition--that of "walking marriage," where women choose their own lovers from men within the tribe but are beholden to none.

Author : Helen Smith
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 29,99 MB
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1594037639

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American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are consciously and unconsciously going “on strike.” They are dropping out of college, leaving the workforce and avoiding marriage and fatherhood at alarming rates. The trend is so pronounced that a number of books have been written about this “man-child” phenomenon, concluding that men have taken a vacation from responsibility simply because they can. But why should men participate in a system that seems to be increasingly stacked against them? As Men on Strike demonstrates, men aren’t dropping out because they are stuck in arrested development. They are instead acting rationally in response to the lack of incentives society offers them to be responsible fathers, husbands and providers. In addition, men are going on strike, either consciously or unconsciously, because they do not want to be injured by the myriad of laws, attitudes and hostility against them for the crime of happening to be male in the twenty-first century. Men are starting to fight back against the backlash. Men on Strike explains their battle cry.

Author : Michele Weiner Davis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 1993-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0671797255

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A step-by-step approach to making your marriage loving again.

Author : Stephanie Coontz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 2006-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1101118253

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Just when the clamor over "traditional" marriage couldn’t get any louder, along comes this groundbreaking book to ask, "What tradition?" In Marriage, a History, historian and marriage expert Stephanie Coontz takes readers from the marital intrigues of ancient Babylon to the torments of Victorian lovers to demonstrate how recent the idea of marrying for love is—and how absurd it would have seemed to most of our ancestors. It was when marriage moved into the emotional sphere in the nineteenth century, she argues, that it suffered as an institution just as it began to thrive as a personal relationship. This enlightening and hugely entertaining book brings intelligence, perspective, and wit to today’s marital debate.

Author : David Blankenhorn
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 12,12 MB
Release : 1996-01-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 006092683X

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A compelling and controversial exploration of absentee fathers and their impact on the nation.

Author : Jen Manion
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1108483801

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A timely and comprehensive history of female husbands in Anglo-America from the eighteenth through the turn of the twentieth century.