Conjugal Dissolution and Gender(In)equalities:A Study of Divorce Processes in Portugal
作者机构:University of MinhoPortugal/National University of BrasiliaBrazil University of MinhoPortugal Interdisciplinar Centre of Social Sciences(CICS.Nova)University of MinhoICSCampus Gualtar4710‐057BragaPortugal
出 版 物:《Sociology Study》
年 卷 期:2018年第8卷第6期
页 面:267-286页
主 题:Divorce gender class inequalities domestic power
摘 要:Like other democratic societies,Portugal has known an important reduction of gender inequalities,mainly by the action of women’s social movements and some political ***,recent(inter)national studies confirm the social borders and inequalities persistence in many contexts(work,values and symbolic regulations,institutional frames,and daily interactions).In this paper,the authors will focus their analysis on the conjugal dissolution processes and unequal distribution of power between men and *** these matters,there is an extended debate,where they propose an articulation between the concepts of gender and *** authors assume as fruitful an articulation of the Marxist model with the feminist one and,indirectly,a critical and synthetic crossing between(neo)Marxism and Weberianism,being this one also articulated with symbolic *** on official statistics,in the analysis of some interviews about the motivations for/in divorce,and in the empirical evidence from the divorce judicial processes,the authors present some preliminary results of a collective project held on some regions of Portugal named:“Gender inequalities in work and private life:from the norms to social practices.The central hypothesis of this project is that the forms of gender inequality and domination are tributaries of macro‐economic and institutional mechanisms but they are also playing at the micro level(family,business,public and private institutions),involving both variables,namely,in a crossing of Weberian‐Marxist perspectives,the presence/absence of certain level of empowerment by social *** means that women’s position depends and/or differs in function of factors such as available resources and rewards,the place in the organizational and(re)productive sphere of the family,and the place in the interactions and in roles negotiation.