Single women in story and society

Byrne, Anne

doi:10.7765/9781847799579.00014

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“…A ‘theory of sexuality becomes feminist to the extent it treats sexuality as a social construct of male power: defined by men, forced on women, and constitutive in the meaning of gender’ (Kolmar and Bartkowski, 2005: 476). Feminists argue the personal is political; thus, power relations operate in personal as well as in public life (Byrne and Leonard, 1997). Considering this, sexual politics cannot be ignored within the social work profession, and in this sense, aspects of Bourdieu’s contribution to sociological theory are helpful.…”

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‘Playing the Game?’: The sexual harassment of female social workers across professional workspaces

O’Reilly

Garrett

2017

International Social Work

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Prompted by an experience while on a student placement in the United States, where sexual harassment was not responded to appropriately in professional supervision, the article focuses on female practitioners’ accounts of such harassment. Initially, the wider context for sexual harassment is furnished by a brief overview of the definition of sexual harassment, the legal context and responses in the Republic of Ireland. The focus then shifts to a small-scale empirical project garnering perceptions. The study is clearly preliminary and tentative, yet it illuminates important findings relating to the sexual harassment of female social workers across professional workspaces.

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‘Playing the Game?’: The sexual harassment of female social workers across professional workspaces

O’Reilly

Garrett

2017

International Social Work

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“…However, it is believed that the increasing attention to difference and diversity in scholarship on familial change indicates the significance of allowing for the subjective connotation of different partnership statuses. Empirical studies on single women are based on the firsthand account of popular images of spinsterhood for women, however, it refers to the previous historical eras in the context of particular social contexts (Allen, 1989;Byrne 2000;Simon: 2010). In ethnographic writings and based on the personal narratives of the single women, the complexities and tensions experienced by them are narrated, negotiating singlehood as an adult woman and examining the ways gendered ideologies and expectations influence how they perform womanhood (McKeown, 2015).…”

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Dilemmas Of Singlehood In Contemporary Pakistani Culture: A Qualitative Study Of Unheard Voices

Sultana¹,

Zeeshan²,

Ahmed³

2021

PJGS

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Marriage has always been central to women’s lives in Pakistan and to remain single is not only considered socially unacceptable but also perceived as non-compliance to the cultural hegemony of the institute of marriage. Pakistan is a country where marriage is considered mandatory and singlehood is viewed as anomalous particularly in the case of women. The present study put light on the experiences of those women who remain unmarried in a traditional society like Pakistan where women are generally seen only as wives and mothers. This study attempted to analyse the perspectives of never-married women with greater emphasis on the issues and challenges faced by them. The primary objective of this paper is to highlight the cultural and psycho-social aspects ofsinglehood and to voice the opinions and ‘lived experiences’ of the never-married female from their perspective. In Pakistani culture, women are generally expected to get married by their mid-twenties. The study was conducted with the help of a qualitative phenomenological approach. It relied on anthropological methods of data collection from twenty never-married women over the age of thirty-five years. Findings revealed that respondents in this study acknowledged their latent desire to be married and having fulfilled lives, however, owing to some tragic socio-familial circumstances, such as financial constraints, the death of father and the responsibility to look after widowed mother and younger siblings, caste-based endogamy, lack of physical attractiveness, failure to find a compatible spouse, were identified as some of the contributory. Regardless of whether the causes for their single status were circumstantial or optional, unmarried women experience criticism, disgrace, loneliness, and feeling of being left out in a patriarchal societal setup where traditional gender role expectations bound women with marriage and motherhood.

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“…Single women's voices revealed singlism in social structures, culture, in everyday interactions and relationships. The tireless work of circumventing stigma, rewriting gendered identity scripts and expanding the repertoire of womanhood shone out in these resisting voices (Byrne 2014). Lentin (1993) argued that feminist research methodologies constituted a new paradigm, inviting scholars to pay attention to difference, women's voices and lived experiences.…”

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