Black Women's Ambivalence About Marriage: A Voice-Centered Relational Approach

Barros-Gomes, Patrícia; Baptist, Joyce

doi:10.1080/15332691.2014.929064

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“…Due to lower divorce rates in the Hispanic community, they may be more inclined to see marriage as an investment of work than women within communities that have higher rates of divorce (i.e., Ellison, Wolfinger, and Ramos-Wada 2013; Orengo-Aguaya 2015). With regard to the theme of envisioning the future despite impermanence, we observed that participants across races brought up concerns and reservations, although white and black participants expressed reservations slightly more than Hispanic/Latina participants in this analysis; these patterns may reflect the higher rates of divorce experienced in white and black communities, even when accounting for educational differences in comparison with Hispanic communities (Barros-Gomes and Baptist 2014; Cook 2015). In sensitizing future research, this discussion suggests that it would be beneficial to further delve into the role that divorce and an individual’s racial/ethnic background play in women’s negotiations of representations and ideologies of intimate relationships.…”

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Happily Ever After? Exploring U.S. Collegiate Women’s Understandings of Love as Impermanent and Timeless in the Age of Capitalism

Koontz

Norman

2018

Sociological Perspectives

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This study examines the impact of popular cultural tropes and contemporary ideologies on U.S. collegiate women’s constructions of romantic love and marriage. Although research shows that shifts in the public sphere intimately affect the private realm, little is known regarding how young women negotiate concurrent romantic ideals and capitalist notions of romance. Based on interviews with 30 collegiate women, we argue that women’s negotiations of romantic love and marriage can be understood through conceptualizations of time, including investment of time, timelessness, and envisioning the future despite impermanence. Our findings suggest a love paradox, in that participants define love as controllable, reflecting late capitalistic terms of love as work and individuals’ responsibilities, and uncontrollable, as love is also deemed magical and timeless. Ambiguities thus arise from perceptions of instability, with women desiring idealized, everlasting love yet remaining doubtful that it can come to fruition in a rationalized, unstable time.

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confidence: 69%

Happily Ever After? Exploring U.S. Collegiate Women’s Understandings of Love as Impermanent and Timeless in the Age of Capitalism

Koontz

Norman

2018

Sociological Perspectives

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“…The Listening Guide increases the accuracy of thematic analysis, transcription, and a platform to attentively listen (and re-listen) for emergent themes from each participant's stories and how those themes relate to each other (Barros-Gomes & Baptist, 2014). For the sake of brevity, more details concerning the Listening Guide have been identified elsewhere (Gilligan et al, 2003).…”

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Next Wave of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Survivors

Rodgers

2021

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This study seeks to deepen our understanding of the survival adaptive behaviors, particularly features of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS), identified by Black women professionals who exist at the margins in academia and society. To date, exploration of posttraumatic growth has not been researched concomitantly with PTSS. By examining these variables collectively, this study’s model provides an original contribution to a growing but insufficient literature on Black women professionals who endure institutional racism. Using the Listening Guide, this study presents data from seven (7) Black women professionals in higher education. The study finds interviewees adopt Angry Black Women and Strong Black Woman schema, and PTSS features as a survival strategy stemming from gender discrimination rooted in proximity to Whiteness and habitual attacks on their professional acumen. Congruently, learnings revealed (1) Identity and Positionality, (2) Generational [In]visibility, (3), Professional Rage Located, and (4) Voices of PPTTG—Prayers, People, Trials, Tribulations and God. Dismantling White Supremacy must center Black women's survival herstories and healing at the intersection of anti-Black racism and hidden systematic policies. Practice models that nuance PTSS trauma-informed assessments, the addition of PTSS to the DSM, and widely accepted African-centered paradigms are essential for this wave of race work

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“…Over the past decade, a number of authors (Barr, Simons, & Simons, 2015; Bay-Cheng & Goodkind, 2016; Budgeon, 2008, 2016; Collins, 2011; Meier, Hull, & Ortyl, 2009) have drawn attention to the prevailing dominance of the ideology of family, marriage, and heterosexual couplehood to the detriment of other relationship states, like singlehood, that are steadily increasing in number. Marriage remains a desired status, especially for women (Barros-Gomes & Baptist, 2014; Dhar, 2015). In line with the prevailing hegemony of couplehood, a vast amount of research on predominantly heterosexual couples and families has been conducted, in comparison to a relatively limited body of research on singlehood (Bay-Cheng & Goodkind, 2016) – specifically ever-single or lifelong single women.…”

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Living single: A phenomenological study of a group of South African single women

Lesch

Watt

2018

Feminism & Psychology

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Worldwide, societies continue to privilege the ideology of couplehood to the detriment of other relationship states, like singlehood, that are steadily increasing in number. Furthermore, according to developmental psychology theory, the formation of a committed romantic relationship is viewed as an important psychosocial developmental task in adulthood. It is therefore not surprising that women’s experience of being single has generally been neglected by psychological theory and research. Situated in a feminist-phenomenological perspective, this study explored the experiences of tertiary-educated, child-free, never-married, White, South African women between the ages of 30 and 40. Giorgi’s descriptive-phenomenological method was used to analyse the individual interview data. In this article, we discuss four of the prominent themes that best reflect the collective views and multi-faceted experiences of the participants: singlehood brings both freedom and loneliness; career as both fulfilment and singlehood coping mechanism; committed partners as sources of both restriction and connection; and hoping for a committed relationship. We highlight how the notion of a committed sexual relationship as the ultimate relationship that provides effortless connectedness and companionship underpins all of these themes. We argue that alternative discourses and mechanisms of connection that accommodate people who live as single adults, should be fostered.

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Black Women's Ambivalence About Marriage: A Voice-Centered Relational Approach

Cited by 4 publications

References 18 publications

Happily Ever After? Exploring U.S. Collegiate Women’s Understandings of Love as Impermanent and Timeless in the Age of Capitalism

Happily Ever After? Exploring U.S. Collegiate Women’s Understandings of Love as Impermanent and Timeless in the Age of Capitalism

Next Wave of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Survivors

Living single: A phenomenological study of a group of South African single women

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