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Women's attitudes toward forming new partnerships in widowhood
— the search for "your own someone" and for freedom | | Author(s) | Jaroslava Hasmanova Marhankova |
| Journal title | Journal of Women and Aging, vol 28, no 1, January-February 2016 |
| Publisher | Routledge, January-February 2016 |
| Pages | pp 34-45 (IN: Journal of Women and Aging, vol 28, nos 1-3, 2016) |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline,com |
| Keywords | Older women ; Widows ; Attitude ; Personal relationships ; Marriage ; Qualitative Studies ; Czech Republic. |
| Annotation | This text is based on an analysis of 20 biographical interviews with women in the Czech Republic who are both retired and have been widowed. The text discusses women's attitudes toward beginning new intimate relationships and the kinds of partnerships some of them have formed in old age. The author discusses the role of gender and gendered behaviour in the institution of marriage as an important factor influencing women's attitudes toward remarrying. The experience of being widowed is an important transition that, besides trauma and difficulties, also presents an opportunity to escape from the previous gender norms and expectations. The significance of these changes, which often open up opportunities for alternative forms of self-fulfillment, become part of the strategies that women select when entering future partnership arrangements. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160805246 A |
| Classmark | BD: SP: DP: DS: SL: 3DP: 7AD |
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