Why do marriages break down? -- Social context -- Men's provider anxiety and self-identity -- Women's contradictory role perceptions -- The extended family: disharmony -- Culpable spouses -- Implications: doing gender.

Bibliographische Detailangaben

1. Verfasser:	I, Yeon ju (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Honolulu, Hawaiʻi University of Hawaiʻi Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:	Hawaiʻi studies on Korea
Schlagworte:	Geschlechterverhältnis Ehekonflikt Ehescheidung Südkorea Divorce / Korea (South) Marriage / Korea (South) / Psychological aspects Sex role / Korea (South) Man-woman relationships / Korea (South)
Zusammenfassung:	Why do marriages break down? -- Social context -- Men's provider anxiety and self-identity -- Women's contradictory role perceptions -- The extended family: disharmony -- Culpable spouses -- Implications: doing gender. "It may sound logical that individualistic attitudes boost divorce. This book argues otherwise. Conservative norms of specialized gender roles serve as the root cause of marital dissolution. Those expectations that prescribe what men should do and what women should do help break down marital relationships. Data from South Korea suggest that lingering norms of gendered roles can threaten married persons' self-identity and hence their marriages during the period of rapid structural changes. The existing literature predicting divorce does not conceptually distinguish between the process of relationship breakdown and the act of ending a marriage, implicitly but heavily focusing on the latter while obscuring the former. In contemporary societies, however, the social and economic cost of divorce is sufficiently low, i.e., stigma against divorce is minimal and economic survival after divorce is a nonissue, and leaving a marriage is no longer dictated by one's being liberal or conservative or any particular characteristics. Thus, the right question to ask is not who leaves a marriage but why a marriage goes sour to begin with. Practically no previous study on divorce has exclusively theorized the process of relationship breakdown. Not conceptually separating the act of leaving a marriage, previous studies addressing the risk factors of divorce have been rather ambiguous about how marital relationships deteriorate enough to result in dissolution.
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	v, 185 Seiten
ISBN:	9780824882556 9780824889708