Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 2005 Canadian General Social Survey, looking at the years 1999–2004 found similar data; 4% of men and 3% of women had experienced intimate partner violence in a relationship in which they were still involved, 16% of men and 21% of women had experienced intimate partner violence in a relationship which had now ended, and 6% of men and 7% ...
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 2001. In 2006 , the story "The Bear Came over the Mountain" was adapted into a film, Away from Her , directed by Sarah Polley and produced by Atom Egoyan .
These norms place men in positions of power and authority over women and children, and they can make it difficult for women to assert their rights and seek help. In addition, the legal framework around domestic violence in Pakistan is weak, and the government has been criticized for not doing enough to protect women and children from abuse. [6]
In the United States, the mean age at first marriage is about 32 for men and about 30.8 for women, putting the average age at first marriage at about 31.4 for both genders. However, in India, it is even lower, at about 30 for men and about 27.2 for women, putting the average age at first marriage at about 28.6 for both genders. [citation needed]
"I saw women as weak. From a very early age, I always thought, 'I've got to hitch my wagon to a man,'" Fonda, 85, told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Friday.
Anthropologist David D. Gilmore argues that misogyny is rooted in men's conflicting feelings: men's existential dependence on women for procreation, and men's fear of women's power over them in their times of male weakness, contrasted against the deep-seated needs of men for the love, care and comfort of women—a need that makes the men feel ...
Silhouettes of Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson and Andrew Jackson from The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Volume VI Springfield Plantation (Fayette, Mississippi), where Rachel and Andrew were allegedly married privately by Thomas M. Green Sr., after misunderstanding whether or not Rachel was divorced; no record of this marriage ceremony has been found "Aboriginal map of Tennessee" (1886) showing ...
"By Sophia, a Person of Quality" on the cover of Woman Not Inferior to Man, 1739. "Sophia, a Person of Quality" was a pen name used by the author of two English protofeminist treatises published in the mid-18th century, following a period trend of women's histories and political tracts arguing in favor of equal rights known as the querelle des femmes.