The Marital Morality of Mexican Women: An Urban Study

Autor:	F. Medardo Tapia Uribe, Sarah Levine, Clara Sunderland Correa
Rok vydání:	1986
Předmět:	media_common.quotation_subject Perspective (graphical) Fidelity social sciences Morality humanities Ideal (ethics) Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Formal education Anthropology Double standard behavior and behavior mechanisms Wife Sociology Socioeconomic status Social psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Anthropological Research. 42:183-202
ISSN:	2153-3806 0091-7710
DOI:	10.1086/jar.42.2.3630487
Popis:	The purpose of this paper is to examine marital morality from the perspective of lower-middle and working-class women in a large urban center south of Mexico City. Anthropologists have noted that a departure from the ideal of sexual fidelity is expected male behavior in Mexican communities, while infidelity by the wife is much more negatively regarded. We examine the extent to which norms governing husband-wife relations and marital morality have been affected by the rapid socioeconomic changes of recent years. We show that, despite the persistence of a double standard of sexual morality, younger urban women with more formal education and access to contraception are beginning to challenge traditional notions of husband-wife relations rather than endure infidelity, physical violence, and other forms of abuse.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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