SOCIOL 2U06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Maternal Death, Noncustodial Parent
20 Apr 2016
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1980s, american study based on interviews with 104 american men and women about their divorce. Riessman interviewed men and women who had gone through a divorce to understand their accounts and understanding of why they got a divorce. Her findings suggest that expectations of marriage are central in the accounts of divorce provided by participants. Women criticized ex-husbands for not making more money. Suggests women remarry in order to improve financial situation. Low income men tend not to remarry compared to higher earning men. Higher income women tend not to remarry as often as low income women. These participants embraced a contemporary ideology that marriage is based on a companionate relationship rooted in north american culture, not universal. Reisman: women more likely to say they got divorce bc they didn"t get emotional intimacy or companionate relationship. Women wanted communication and husbands to open up to them, reciprocity, conversation. Men tended to define emotional intimacy in terms of physical affection.
