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Record Nr.

UNINA9910137618803321

Autore

Barbara Drieskens (dir.)

Titolo

Les métamorphoses du mariage au Moyen-Orient / / Barbara Drieskens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Presses de l’Ifpo, 2008

France : , : Presses de l'Ifpo, , 2008

ISBN

2-8218-1561-1

2-35159-274-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (152 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cahiers de l'Ifpo ; ; 2

Soggetti

Sociology & Social History

Social Sciences

Family & Marriage

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Sommario/riassunto

For several years, demographers have drawn our attention to the rise of celibacy, the narrowing of the age gap between partners and the fluctuating divorce rate in the contemporary Middle East. This book brings together various contributions aiming to account for the implications of all these phenomena on the ideas and practices underlying quantitative data. Collective marriages, civil marriages, temporary or secret marriages: so many new matrimonial paradigms which seem to be gradually establishing themselves. But are they really new, and what needs do they meet? What about the growing gap between adolescence and marriage? What about celibacy as a choice but also as a reality imposed by socio-economic constraints? Where are the marriage policy and the promotion of stable family unity as the foundation of social order? The various chapters of this book are only a starting point for exploring the possible answers to these questions.