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The New Politics of Adultery [PDF]
, 2006 Adultery is nothing new. Nor are social sanctions against it. But there is something new in the contemporary cultural politics of adultery, which begins with an ever-expanding definition of infidelity. Once restricted to “natural heterosexual intercourse,” infidelity now extends to a variety of sexual practices. Indeed, these days, infidelity can occur
Cossman, Brenda
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, 2016 Despite declining prohibitions on sexual relationships, Americans are nearly unanimous in condemning marital infidelity. Deborah Rhode explores why. She exposes the harms that criminalizing adultery inflicts-including civil lawsuits, job termination, and
Rhode, Deborah L.,
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, 2020 Originally published in 1979. Adultery is a dominant feature in chivalric literature; it becomes a major concern in Shakespeare's last plays; and it forms the central plot of novels from Anna Karenina to Couples.
Tanner, Tony
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2018
This chapter considers the destabilizing effect of adultery on the legal fiction of marital unity under coverture. It discusses how Mary Arnold's extramarital behavior, along with the public scandals surrounding women like Abigail Barker and Freelove-Sophia Tweedy, exposed the limits of Blackstone's notion that husband and wife were “one person in law.”
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This chapter considers the destabilizing effect of adultery on the legal fiction of marital unity under coverture. It discusses how Mary Arnold's extramarital behavior, along with the public scandals surrounding women like Abigail Barker and Freelove-Sophia Tweedy, exposed the limits of Blackstone's notion that husband and wife were “one person in law.”
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Journal of Social Philosophy, 1998
Etude de la question de l'adultere du point de vue de l'ethique de la vertu, en general, et du point de vue de la moralite kantienne, en particulier. Examinant les differentes interpretations du consequentialisme de Kant developpees par M. Wreen dans le sens d'une critique de l'adultere, et par R.
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Etude de la question de l'adultere du point de vue de l'ethique de la vertu, en general, et du point de vue de la moralite kantienne, en particulier. Examinant les differentes interpretations du consequentialisme de Kant developpees par M. Wreen dans le sens d'une critique de l'adultere, et par R.
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Ways of Dealing with Adultery: A Study of Munro’s Adultery Stories
Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2016This article aims to discuss three of Alice Munro’s stories—“Differently,” “The Children Stay,” and “What Is Remembered”—in terms of Munro’s new ways of dealing with female adultery. I argue that unlike their nineteenth-century literary precedents, these stories promote a positive view of desire, of self-realization and self-fulfillment.
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Sociological Inquiry, 1985
The objective of this paper is to identify and explain a generally unidentified source of problems which affects married people. Whereas friendship is, in most cases, a socially accepted and highly valued relationship, there is a form of friendship which appears to be, if not unacceptable, at least discouraged and ignored– opposite‐sex friendship with ...
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The objective of this paper is to identify and explain a generally unidentified source of problems which affects married people. Whereas friendship is, in most cases, a socially accepted and highly valued relationship, there is a form of friendship which appears to be, if not unacceptable, at least discouraged and ignored– opposite‐sex friendship with ...
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