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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 8–14.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Nara Milanich Latin America has long been known for its low marriage rates and high rates of children born outside of marriage. Beginning in 2000, politicians across the region began promoting “responsible paternity,” sponsoring legislation to help women track down their children’s fathers...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 50–63.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Tasneem Alsultan Saudi wedding photographer Tasneem Alsultan was curious about what happened to love and marriage after the big day. Alsultan, herself a divorcee, began to share (with their permission) the stories of the women whose weddings she photographed. As part of her project Saudi Love...
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Published: 01 September 2017
My daughter Yara stands in small riverside structure in a Jubail Industrial City park. My daughters tell me, “Mama, I never want to get married. I just want to have kids, like you.” They’ve watched me endure a tiresome 10-year struggle for a divorce, and now have a negative view of marriage. My
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Published: 01 September 2017
Nassiba, a fashion designer, plays with her son Bilal in their home in Jeddah. After her marriage ended, Nassiba kept sole custody of Bilal, a rarity for divorced mothers in Saudi Arabia. “Society constrains the definition of a divorcee. What you can or can’t do remains under the control of others
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Published: 01 September 2017
Mai, a dentist in Jeddah, wears the wedding dress she wore 15 years ago. “I married my college classmate in dental school. Sharing two children and a happy marriage, we finally bought our dream house. The day after signing the lease, he died in a motorcycle accident. Then, my father died. I
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 3–8.
Published: 01 March 2014
... standards of virginity before marriage and chastity ever after, when their bodies and their sexuality are a family affair, not a private concern, and when violations against these are hushed in the name of collective male honor. Sex, wrapped in religion, is as powerful a tool of control for the father...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 83–89.
Published: 01 September 2017
... to LGBT rights, and a remarkable number of journalists seemed to think the U.S. was demanding that Liberia allow same-sex marriage. Journalists weren’t the only ones pushing the subject of America’s supposed imposition of LGBT rights to the top of the national agenda. Also in early 2012, Leroy Archie...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 18–22.
Published: 01 December 2016
... Marriage Law, which, among other things, ended underage marriage and decreed that both parties must freely enter into marriage, putting an end to arranged unions. The Communist Party also strictly enforced an existing ban on footbinding, a painful process that had never been practiced in many parts...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 70–74.
Published: 01 June 2018
... marriage to be with Alexandra’s father, though she later promised Alexandra’s sister to a well-to-do man 40 years the girl’s senior. The young Alexandra abhorred the idea of being auctioned off to the highest bidder. Over her parents’ wishes, when she was 21 she married a poor cousin, Vladimir Kollontai...
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Published: 01 September 2017
Raneen and Hisham, who pose American Gothic-style in their unfinished swimming pool, were both previously married and divorced. Now married to each other, they realize their mistakes. “We didn’t believe in love, and were too cynical. We also thought of marriage as a duty. After we stopped
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (1): 22–32.
Published: 01 March 2012
...James Angelos Many students tell similar love stories. No one describes theirs as an arranged marriage. Often, however, they seemed to know surprisingly little about the objects of their affection. One young woman says she met her fiancé at a friend’s “promise celebration,” something...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (2): 91–99.
Published: 01 June 2014
... to the temple’s renowned patron, Lord Aravan. Each year, a symbolic marriage takes place between Aravan and thousands of his devotees. But these days, there is another attraction of an entirely different variety. Alongside the main rituals, a group of Aravanis organize a series of town hall meetings and music...
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World Policy Journal (2013) 30 (4): 24–29.
Published: 01 December 2013
... their fathers and husbands on big purchases, while marriages are sanctioned only if both fathers consent. “Everything is a lot cheaper online. I get to browse through and compare multiple products retailed across the country and get them all delivered to my home within a week,” says Wang Ming, a marketing...
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (1): 49–53.
Published: 01 March 2018
... of “gay marriage” was announced in Japan back in 1968, a year before the Stonewall Riots occurred in New York City, it was no more than a personal declaration, with no legal standing. It was not until 2015 that the Shibuya Ward of Tokyo (a Tokyo ward is similar to a New York City borough) became the first...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 1–2.
Published: 01 September 2017
... Alsultan, who, as a longtime wedding photographer, started to wonder what happened to the marriages she captured on film. In her project “Saudi Tales of Love,” she collects the stories of these relationships, revealing both the obstacles imposed by sexist laws and the strength of women across the Arabian...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 34–41.
Published: 01 December 2011
..., same-sex marriage is now legal in Mexico City and Argentina. Abortions are also legal in Mexico’s capital. Such progressive legislation speaks to an accelerating secularization, although the cultural shift is far from universal. In many parts of the region, conservative Catholic views on social issues...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 28–35.
Published: 01 September 2017
...” to their husband’s family, or a man “receiving a bride.” These terms indicate the patrilocal logic of the family registry ( koseki ) system, which survived radical postwar reforms designed to protect individuals’—particularly women’s—rights within marriage. The koseki system is based on the 1872 Civil Code, which...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (3): 101–112.
Published: 01 September 2011
... and women equal rights within marriage, and allowing women to keep their children and homes after divorce. Finally, the age of consent for marriage was fixed at 18 years. Algerian women next door simmered with envy—the nation’s president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who came to power in Algeria at the same time...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (1): 71–79.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., aside from sex selection, why a woman might need an abortion in the second trimester. Much of India’s female population is impoverished, rural, and illiterate, and arranged marriages of teenagers are common. Many young women know virtually nothing about contraception, sex, or reproduction, and don’t...
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World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 28–38.
Published: 01 March 2014
...-sex attractions, desires, even identities are not illegal. What is criminalized is a particular set of sexual acts that occur outside of a sanctioned heterosexual marriage, including sodomy and adultery. Under certain circumstances, a man convicted of sodomy, or lavat , can be put to death...
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