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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Courtship and Marriage"”.
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Contemporary trends in marriage and its preliminaries among the AbakwaMkhwanazi
The purpose of this research is to probe into and describe in detail the various changes which have occurred in the courtship and marriage practices of members of the Mkhwanazi tribe of the oNgoye district, in KwaZulu, ever since they came into •contact with western culture towards the end of the …
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Formulating Fantasies: Marriage in Victorian England and George Eliot's Middlemarch
… oldest states of existence known to humanity, marriage is a traditional state of being, uniting one man and one woman to love, honor, cherish, and protect each other for the rest of their lives. In Victorian England, however, many men and women questioned traditional expectations concerning …
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Sibling relations in Protestant middle-class Ulster families, c.1850-1900
Sibling relationships are navigated and negotiated by individuals over a lifetime. Using more than 4,300 individual letters, eighty wills, and seven diaries, this thesis explores siblinghood in twenty-three sibling sets from eight Ulster Protestant families over the second half of the nineteenth …
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Male perceptions of changes in marriage and the family among the boat people of Hong Kong
… differences in perceptions between the older and the younger generation of the boat people about marriage and the family. The respondents for this study were the boat people from the Shaukiwan Fish Market of Hong Kong. A questionnaire using a number of items pertaining to marriage and family …
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Engagement in Nineteenth-Century England
… is to fill a lacuna in the current social and cultural historiography of nineteenth-century England. It does so by expanding and nuancing the study of romantic culture from the current narrative of ‘courtship and marriage’ to include the crucial period of engagement. Making a suitable, …
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Gender and Desire in Thomas Lovell Beddoes' The Brides' Tragedy and Death's Jest-Book
… characters are, for the most part, objectified and static, but these passive women perform a crucial narrative and thematic function in the plays. Alongside the destructive activity of the male characters, they dramatize masculine-feminine unions as idealized and contrived and, thus, unstable. …
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Methodist families c. 1850-1932
… from a sample of 77 subjects (both individuals and families), mainly drawn from Wesleyan and Primitive Methodism. These subjects are sub-divided into "ministerial, "officer" and "rank-and-file" categories. Personal accounts in the form of published and unpublished auto/biographies, transcripts …
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The culture and rhetoric of the answer-poem:1485-1625:with a supplementary 'Select catalogue of answer-poetry in print and manuscript, 1485-1625'
This thesis examines the culture and rhetoric of the answer-poem during the Tudor and early-Stuart periods, charting the phenomena that led answer-poetry to become a prominent mode of social interaction in Renaissance literature. The answer-poem is symptomatic of a culture fixated with codes and …
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The social meanings of a child with sickle cell disease in Ghana: Fathers' reactions and perspectives.
… Existing literature on SCD is focussed on the US and UK experiences, and takes a predominantly medical perspective. US and UK sociological literature on SCD suggests the importance of the social context within which chronic illness is negotiated, that the impact of SCD is mediated through the …