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Snowden, Kim Louise. "Negotiating the spaces of adultery : domesticity and the feminist adultery narrative." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31068.
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This dissertation examines the representation of spatiality in female adultery novels by
women. I explore the ways in which the characters of female adulterers negotiate public and
private space, and how adultery affects women's access and mobility in terms of domesticity and
acceptable forms of femininity. I argue that in representation there are often multiple and
conflicting spatial frameworks and that for women, negotiating these spaces can be a feminist
act. I examine four novels within this framework that all deal with female adultery and
spatiality-Possession by A.S. Byatt, Other Women by Evelyn Lau, Written on the Body by
Jeanette Winterson, and Brick Lane by Monica Ali. There is an anxiety present in these
narratives concerning the ways that public and private space inter-relate and the gendered body
negotiates that space. This anxiety is represented in these texts as a spectral presence - in terms
of ghosts, haunting, or a warning of what is to come. The repetition and reproduction of this
anxiety binds the narratives to a repressive and sexist literary tradition where Victorian values
linger in the lives of the characters, their actions, and the spaces that they occupy; the female
adulterers' narrative spaces remain haunted by their literary forbears.
The feminist negotiation of space in these adultery narratives is undermined through the
creation of binaries-the presence and repetition of a failed domesticity suggests that there may be
a successful way to produce domesticity-a model that cannot include the female adulterer.
Further, failed domesticity and women's relationship to public and private space, especially in
relation to marriage, can be linked to literary constructions of feminine respectability. The
female adulterer becomes a site for all of these conflicts, contradictions, and anxieties and her
relationship to spatiality becomes key for understanding her narrative function in a feminist
literary canon. I argue that she is a feminist figure because her negotiation of space actually
reveals the extent to which women are still limited by patriarchal discourses that espouse heteronormative constructions of marriage, fidelity, and family as the only socially acceptable
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Dixon, Jessica Elizabeth. "The language of Roman adultery." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-language-of-roman-adultery(c85e2315-14ca-4c86-a5ea-23d7bcbb219a).html.
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This thesis uses the language of adultery to examine the relationship between law and society in ancient Rome. In particular, questions will be asked about the ways in which this exchange functioned – do social norms determine law or vice versa? To begin, the lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis will be contextualised within Augustus’ wider programme of moral reform, and definitions will be given for adulterium and stuprum, the terms which the law used to classify the actions it penalised. The thesis will use these two terms as a lens through which to investigate changes in attitudes to adultery following the introduction of the lex Iulia. A survey of the use of adulterium and stuprum, including their derivatives and the borrowed Greek form moechus, will be made within Latin literature from the 2nd century BC until the 2nd century AD. It will be argued that changes in the use and meaning of the terms following the introduction of the lex Iulia are indicative of changes in attitudes to adultery within the Roman male elite. This in turn will show that law can and does impact on society and it can be used as a positive force to change society’s conception of a given behaviour. Chapter two looks closely at the punishment of adultery in the republic in order to provide a framework through which to understand the lex Iulia as an innovative piece of legislation. The provisions of the law will then be recreated using the juristic texts of the sixth century legal compilations and the chapter will conclude by looking at the attempts to revive the lex Iulia by later emperors and the changes that were made to the law. The focus of chapters three and four is the use of the terms adulterium and stuprum in prose and verse literature. A selection of authors has been chosen to provide a sample that covers the chronological period in question and to include a wide range of genres. It will be shown that in the republic stuprum was the more frequent term as it could be used to refer to sexual transgression in general, including adultery. However, following the introduction of the adultery law, adulterium is found with much greater frequency and its use reflects the new legal definition of adultery and the need to qualify accusations in terms of the law. Moreover, whereas previously stuprum had been conceived of as the more damaging and disgraceful concept, adulterium became to be of greater concern. The legal significance which the lex Iulia gave to adultery and the terms used to describe it are also evident. Overall, it is the aim of this thesis to show how the introduction of the lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis shaped and altered attitudes to adultery within Roman society. Nevertheless, the validity of using law to control morality continued to be questioned by some of the authors studied and there were negative effects on ideas of marital fidelity and sexual morality as a result of the law.
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Bruce, Joel C. "The judicial process for suspected adultery in Israel and the ancient Near East." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.
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Chuick, Christopher D. "The connection between extramarital sex and sex roles." Online version, 1999. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1999/1999chuickc.pdf.
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Koski, Michelle A. "Adult children of parental infidelity and their perspectives of love, intimate relations, and marriage." Online version, 2001. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2001/2001koskim.pdf.
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Williams, Joy. "Sex Downeast: Adultery and Fornication in Colonial Maine." W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625997.
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Radwin, Ariella Michal. "Adultery and the marriage metaphor rabbinic readings of Sotah /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1383469791&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Leckie, Barbara. "Infidelity, the novel, and the law." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74644.
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This thesis examines the sociolegal context of the representation of infidelity in the Anglo-American novel. It locates the first serious Anglo-American treatment of infidelity in the novels of Henry James and Ford Madox Ford; and it situates these writers for the first time in their immediate legal context. The dominant mode through which infidelity was discursively defined during this period was simultaneously legal and sensational: the publication of "Divorce Court" trials in the daily newspapers. The implication of this context for the novel is twofold. The focus on narration from the perspective of the betrayed party prompts a local questioning of knowledge (of knowing one's spouse), and a more general questioning of the epistemoloigcal premises of the realist novel itself. The novels considered here make clear the limitations of a legal discourse committed to a disinterested record of "what happened." In the process, they illustrate several of the narrative innovations most distinctive to the modernist novel. Secondly, what will be called an "aesthetics of suspicion" and "domestic surveillance" distinguishes James's and Ford's novels from the central critical tradition which reads the representation of infidelity as subversive of social norms. Instead, these novels reinforce, thematically and formally, the legal policing of infidelity. Doubt of both conjugal and narrative fidelity, then, becomes the means through which the legal policing of infidelity in the divorce court is covertly extended in the novel.
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Harris, Christine R. "Gender differences in jealousy : the innate module theory reconsidered /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9904724.
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Bratton, Amy Eleanor. "Between bedroom and courtroom : legal and literary perspectives on slaves and the freed in Augustus' adultery legislation." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/23459.
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This thesis offers an investigation into the roles of slaves and freedmen and the extent of their involvement in the Romans’ legal and literary discourse on adultery and the legislation introduced to address it – the lex Iulia de adulteriis coercendis. It also seeks to assert their place more firmly within the context of the Roman familia and explore what this means in the context of the adultery statute. This thesis reasserts the position of slaves and freedmen within the Roman familia as a whole and, more specifically, as individuals deserving and requiring of consideration within the context of the analysis of the adultery statute and other social legislation. A multi-disciplinary approach has been adopted in this thesis to address the multiple avenues apparent in the investigation. A detailed analysis of the primary extant source of the statute, found in Justinian’s Digest, was carried out to determine the extent of the inclusion of the servile and freed in adulterous relationships and how much consideration was shown to them by the legal writers, or jurists. As a corollary to this analysis, a range of literary works, from Ovid, the Elder Seneca, Quintilian, Tacitus and Suetonius, was examined to provide a counterpoint to the legal perspective on the inclusion of slaves and freedmen within adulterous relationships, and, subsequently, the familia. Re-assessing the roles of slaves and freedmen within adulterous relationships and the legislation aimed at controlling this crime also necessitates another reassessment – namely, that of the motivations behind the introduction of the statute itself. Notoriously difficult to determine, this thesis posits, in conclusion, that, rather than being an instrument of the moral indignation of the contemporary Roman population, the adultery legislation was instituted as an instrument of economic control to counter the potential dilution of the wealth of the elite of Rome by illegitimate children. Slaves and freedmen were, then, a crucial element of a deceptively complex piece of legislation typically assumed to affect and address members of the Roman elite only.
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Siu, Leung Kit-sum Mary. "Infidelity in marriages : implications on counselling /." [Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong], 1985. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12322465.
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Niu, Xuan, and 牛璇. "Islam, desires, and intimate relations in an ethnic context : exploration of extramarital relationships among the Hui in Western China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/210385.
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While extramarital affairs and bao ernai have gained notoriety in Chinese society, the phenomena of xiaosan and ernai have been explosive in academic and legal spheres. Yet, these social phenomena among ethnic minority groups in China are unknown. This study is the first to explore the experiences of extramarital relations outside official marriage among the Hui ethnic group in China. The extramarital relations in the specific dual (Han/Hui) cultural context are interpreted and understood diversely due to the interplay among a host of conditioning factors –interests, beliefs, norms, legal codes, moral sanctions.
By using the snowball sampling method, this study has deployed in-depth interviews and focus group discussions with 41 Hui men and women living in either the capital or in a the small town oin Qinghai Province in western China. This thesis examines the way in which Islamic religious values are played out in the context of Chinese law and extramarital relations. It also examines why, given the Hui knowledge of their religious and ethnic position, the Hui engage in extramarital affairs outside official marriage. Thus, it seeks to understand the Hui with respect to their intimacy and sexual relations both within and outside official marriage in contemporary China.
This study argues that, in the local context, the Hui preserve their religious beliefs and Islamic values to differentiate themselves from other ethnic groups. Islam is a key marker of their ethnicity, functioning as religious law to culturally validate their behavior. Local knowledge of legal pluralism enables the Hui to act defiantly, despite the state’s disapproval of their practices of extramarital intimacy and sex. The interaction between the state and customary law is under the unilateral control of the state. Instead of coexisting, this legal unilateralization shows that customary law usually gives way to state law wherever they intersect. As a result, the interplay of the two legal cultures – that of the Chinese state and that of Islam – produces crime, but also makes extramarital relationships in the Hui context possible.
I argue that Islamic beliefs cannot fully explain the individualism and subjectivity of Muslims in the context of extramarital practices, especially within a transforming China and a globalizing economy. The Hui articulate and negotiate their multiple affective, sexual, and material desires to raise their self-awareness of aspirations and construe their autonomy and self-representation in order to justify their behavior. Individual desires also play a pivotal role in interpreting their practices, and are in turn played out in the intersection of intimacy, gender, ethnicity, social status, and age.
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Moody, Joanna. "Representations of the wife in the Sidney circle, 1593-1621 : the Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia to the Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania." Thesis, University of York, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337154.
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Law, Susan Carolyn. "Public roles and private lives : aristocratic adultery in late Georgian England." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/49467/.
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This thesis examines the complex links between morality and leadership, by using adultery as a window through which to reassess the position of the aristocracy in late Georgian England. It analyses the construction and performance of aristocratic roles, and illustrates how various literary representations played an active part in manipulating public attitudes and creating change. It charts ways in which narratives of adultery were exploited for commercial and political motives, undermining the traditional basis of hereditary power by questioning moral fitness to rule, and ultimately contributing to the fundamental re-imagining of social structure expressed in the 1832 Reform Act. The old ‘aristocratic political history’ is reassessed through the lens of new cultural history by re-integrating literary evidence, to contribute new perspectives on the social and cultural position of the aristocracy. A key argument is that aristocratic roles were constructed over time through the interaction of successive layers of performance in everyday life and literature. This theory is intended as a fresh contribution to wider current debates on how readers interpret and respond to texts, by exploring notions of representation, self-representation and the role of literature in shaping both. The two concepts underpinning this work are the notion of theatre as a metaphor for life in which people enact a variety of roles, and the belief that literature has an active influence on attitudes and behaviours. By focussing on adultery as a social act, it investigates the consequences of infidelity for public life, and its profound implications for the meaning of aristocracy sited within overlapping public and private spheres. It questions stereotypes of aristocratic vice popularised by commercial print culture, and compares these representations with personal narratives. This thesis argues that stories of adultery are significant cultural material artefacts which must be integrated with traditional social and political histories, to provide a full understanding of the performative nature of identity.
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Harper, April. "Images of adultery in twelfth and thirteenth-century Old French literature." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14654.
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This thesis examines literary images of masculinity and femininity, their function and depiction in marriage roles and homo-social relationships in the context of crisis: wifely adultery. The study is heavily reliant upon vernacular texts, especially Old French works from the twelfth and thirteenth century including works from the genres of romance, lais, fables, and fabliaux. Latin works including historia and prescriptive texts such as customaries, penitentials, etiquette texts and medical and canon law treatises are also used to contextualise themes in the Old French literature. The introduction summarises modern literary and historical criticism concerning sexuality in the Middle Ages. It then discusses the influences of the Church, philosophy, medicine, natural theory and society on medieval definitions of sexuality to contextualise the literature which is focal to this thesis. The following four chapters each consider a single character in the adulterous affair: the adulteress, the husband, the lover and the accuser. The literary images of each character are analysed in detail revealing the diversity of depictions between and also within genres. This enables the identification of medieval sexual constructs, challenging some previous critiques of representations of sexuality in the Middle Ages. The final chapter explores the language by which the sexual act is presented. Furthermore, it shows how language is used and occasionally abused in committing, prosecuting and evading punishment for adultery and how it can be wielded as a weapon of women. Through the focus of a body of literature rich in depictions of sexuality, this thesis questions the misogynist overtones often attributed to medieval literature. The diversity of images shows that the literature illustrates a wide range of opinions and ideas reflective of the complexity of sexuality in medieval society.
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Martinez, Ruben. "Biblical counseling and the use of community in cases of adultery." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2001. http://www.tren.com.
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Wong, Hoi-woon Amy. "A social worker's reflection on handling infidelity issues with violent couples." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2004. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36783079.
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White, Nicholas James. "Narrative closure and family history in the fin-de-siecle novel." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.319593.
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Antoff, Theresa L. "Negotiating intimacies : the trial of Katharine Nairn and Patrick Ogilvie for the crimes of incest and murder." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2018. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=237793.
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Atkins, David C. "Infidelity and marital therapy : initial findings from a randomized clinical trial /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9029.
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FERREIRA, REYNALDO LUIZ DIAS. "HONOR VERSUS PASSION: THE ADULTERY ON INTELLECTUAL VISION OF EÇA DE QUEIRÓS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2009. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=32835@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROO presente trabalho teve como objetivo colocar em discussão a polêmica sobre a educação de fraca formação moral das jovens da baixa burguesia portuguesa. A criação de expectativas romanescas, provocadas por leituras ultra-românticas, segundo o intelectual e escritor Eça de Queirós, levaram as mulheres a tentar representar na vida as situações de amores ilegítimos e exacerbadamente idealistas que viam romanticamente descritas, nos romances lidos. Para analisar essa premissa, apontada por Eça de Queirós, selecionamos a obra O primo Basílio, na qual o autor defende essa tese através da criação de diferentes personagens e situações. Considerando a importância de seus textos ficcionais e não-ficcionais, por conta da constante tematização dos vários aspectos culturais que mantinham Portugal aquém da modernidade do século XIX, buscamos respaldar o presente estudo abordando, também, parte de sua produção intelectual, como as experiências do autor como escritor, como jornalista e sua correspondência com intelectuais da época.
The present study aims at establishing a relation between the precarious education and the weak moral formation of the 19th century Portuguese ladies from the lower bourgeoisie. According to the writer and intellectual Eça de Queirós, the creation of romantic expectations influenced by the ultra-romantic novels led these women and heroines to try to represent in their lives the situations of illegitimate and extremely idealistic love affairs romantically described in the novels they read. In order to premise Eça de Queirós argument, his novel O primo Basílio was selected for this study as it establishes this communication through the creation of different characters and situations. Considering the importance of his fictional and not fictional works due to the constant studies of various moral and pedagogical aspects which kept Portugal far off from the modernity of the 19th century, the present study also considers part of the intellectual production of the author, his experiences both as a writer and journalist and his correspondence with intellectuals of his time about the topics mentioned above.
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Parkin, Kirsten. "Three is a Crowd: Adultery laws and legal principles in Latin Controversiae." Thesis, University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/24088.
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In 18 BCE, Augustus proposed a series of social reform laws that significantly transformed the moral landscape at Rome. These laws were nothing short of revolutionary. Among them, the Lex Iulia de adulteriis, made adultery, stuprum and lenocinium, respectively for the first time, criminal offences at Rome. This law had a particularly enduring significance and legacy. Moreover, the law had a sustained salience in the centuries to come, through the passing of imperial rescripts until the third century CE, and its later appropriation in Justinian’s reforms and in the Christian Empire. This thesis argues that approaches to the theme of adultery in the Latin rhetorical exercise of controversiae are underpinned by a rich tapestry of laws and legal principles belonging to Augustus’ Lex Iulia de adulteriis. Since Lanfranchi (1938) and Bonner’s (1949) seminal works, a burgeoning body of scholarship has challenged the view that controversiae are entirely fictitious legal constructs arguing instead that declamation is capable of drawing on aspects of legal reality. But while the intersection between the laws of adultery controversiae and Roman law has been noted, very few studies have made controversiae their main focus. Through a series of three case studies, on Minor Declamation 277 and Calpurnius Flaccus Declamation 2, Minor Declamation 286, and Minor Declamation 275, I contend that adultery controversiae adopt and reappropriate several legal principles and laws dating variously from Augustus’ Lex Iulia de adulteriis in 18 BCE, to the passage of Imperial rescripts issued in addendum to Augustus’ law, in the first and second centuries CE. This thesis highlights the values underpinning both the law and controversiae as it explores these intersections, demonstrating the deep interconnections between controversiae and their Roman cultural context.
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Ng, Lai-ping. "The study of mother's parental behavior and child's behavior as affected by father's affair." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19471002.
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Summey, David Chipley. "Possible backgrounds for the woman caught in adultery John 7:53-8:11 /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p001-1149.
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Caponi, Paolo. "Adultery in the high canon: forms of infidelity in Joyce, Beckett and Pinter." Doctoral thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/485.
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Rausberger, Claes Michael. "Ont begär : horsbrotten i Fryksdals härad och Jösse härad i Värmland under mitten av 1600-talet." Thesis, Högskolan på Gotland, Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hgo:diva-1445.
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The 17th century was a time of change in Sweden. During the century many of the Swedish laws were altered. In the beginning of the 17th century this alteration resulted in a more severe sentence for most of the committed crimes, but a mitigation of the sentence for some of those crimes was effected in the middle of the 17th century. The aim of this study is to see how two local courts in the judicial system during the mid 17th century in Sweden treated adultery, and those who committed the crime against the background of what the law regarding adultery stipulated. The source material used are court records from Fryksdals hundred and Jösse hundred in western Sweden, and laws regarding adultery during the 17th century. This research shows that the laws regarding adultery were in themselves not gender specific, and their main concern was the marital status of those involved. The punishment for all forms of adultery was a death sentence during the first half of the 17th century, but during the latter part of the century the punishment for a specific form of adultery, when only one of the involved was married, was mitigated to a fine which differed according to marital status. In most of the cases both courts in Fryksdals hundred and Jösse hundred applied the law as it was written in their verdict, and the verdicts of acquittals were few. There is however a tendency in the findings towards a difference between the actual local courts at the end of the first half of the 17th century. Court records show that Fryksdals hundred, which generally had more crimes regarding adultery than Jösse hundred, during that time applied a more rigorous attitude towards those crimes. The conclusion is that, although the results from both hundreds do not differ much from the general picture of adultery in Sweden, there is still a tendency of a difference between the actual local courts themselves.
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Fricker, Julie. "Predicting infidelity the role of attachment styles, lovestyles, and the investment model /." Australasian Digital Thesis Program, 2006. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au/public/adt-VSWT20060828.095633.
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Thesis DPsych (Counselling Psychology) -- Swinburne University of Technology, 2006.Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the Professional Doctorate in Psychology (Counselling Psychology), Swinburne University of Technology, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-150).
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Chi, Peilian, and 池培莲. "Forgiveness following spousal infidelity: a process exploration in the Chinese community." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46582897.
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Kleine, Michelle Hess Jon A. "For better or worse? the impact of accounts and attributions following marital infidelity /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4685.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on March 10, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.
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Fernández, Ana María. "Asymmetries among homosexual men and women in subjective distress to sexual and emotional infidelity: A critical test of evolutionary hypothesis." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1616.
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Bratten, Joanna K. "Representations of adultery and regeneration in selected novels of Ford, Lawrence, Waugh and Greene." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6723.
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This thesis is an examination of how the themes of adultery and regeneration are interwoven and explored by selected English novelists in the first half of the twentieth century. It is essential to establish that Ford, Lawrence, Waugh and Greene do not adhere to the ‘archetypal' pattern of the adultery novel established in the nineteenth century and, in fact, turn that pattern on its head. Ford's The Good Soldier and Parade's End provide two differing perspectives. The first uses adultery as a metaphor for the disintegration of English society, mirroring the social disintegration that accompanied the First World War; Parade's End, however, presents an adulterous relationship as being a regenerative force in the post-war society. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover also uses an adulterous relationship as a means of addressing the need for social, and national, regeneration in the inter-war years. Waugh's A Handful of Dust presents a woman's adultery as the ruin of not only a good man, but also civilisation in general; Brideshead Revisited is more religious in tone and traces the spiritual regeneration of its central character, whose conversion, ironically, is made possible through his adulterous relationship. Similarly, Greene's The Heart of the Matter and The End of the Affair portray the process of spiritual regeneration; in both novels this movement towards salvation is intertwined with an exploration of adulterous love. The ultimate question probed in this thesis is how the twentieth century novel of adultery overturns the traditional literary approach to the subject. Adulterous unions and illegitimate children are no longer presented as being exclusively socially destabilising or subversive in these novels; most intriguingly significant is that, in some of these novels, the illegitimate child becomes a symbol of hope, and, indeed, of regeneration.
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Oala, Monica. "Single women and infidelity : a feminist qualitative analysis of extramarital relationships and their termination." Thesis, McGill University, 2008. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=115628.
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Extramarital relationships and women's sexuality are by far some of the most controversial and elusive subjects in our society, and most of the empirical literature and popular opinion about the connection between women and infidelity perceive it as unequivocally taboo. Following the work of feminist researchers who valorize the potential for women's sexual experiences and view heterosexual relationships as a form of oppression, I explore the extramarital relationships between single women and married men. To perform this exploration, I completed two-part, in-depth interviews with eleven single women who had an intimate relationship with a married man. Once the interviews were transcribed verbatim, I completed a four-step voice-centered relational reading and analysis of the interviews in which participants' experiences were summarized into three relationships: with themselves, with the married man, and with the married man's wife. I set aside the themes that emerged from this inquiry and I performed a discourse analysis on the participants' narratives for each of these three relationships. Since the resulting themes from the voice-centered relational analysis overlapped considerably with the dominant discourses that emerged from the discourse analysis, a more in-depth feminist analysis was performed exclusively on the latter. In summary, the most commonly occurring dominant discourses were a struggle with morality, identity development and identity reconstruction; responsibility toward women (the married man's wife); and a negative emotional aftermath following the end of the relationship. Consequently, this analysis also found an occurrence of three types of extramarital relationships: satisfying, distressing/distancing, and emotionally abusive. Each dominant discourse was deconstructed per participant and per interview by using a feminist theoretical lens.The analysis paved the way for a relational and socio-political examination of single women's experiences of infidelity. The implications of this study are discussed by comparing them to existing investigations, both feminist and traditional, of women's intimate relationships. This study thus aimed to understand the experiences of single women who have had intimate relationships with married men, to empower them as well as the mental health professionals and educators who work with this particular clientele.
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Howe, Bonnie M. "The hurting wife a biblical counseling resource for wives dealing with their husbands' infidelity /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2004. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p091-0045.
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Lee, Joonhaeng. "Pastoral care for the wives who suffer from the extra-marital affairs of their husbands a case study /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.
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Ress, Evelyn. "Marriage in the eighties : with particular regard to the prevalence and effect of brief or sustained infidelity and the challenge it poses for the clinical social worker." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21149.
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Bibliography: pages 134-152.In the modern western world, infidelity or deviation from the monogamous sexually constrained 'till death do us part' marriage is often judged as unhappy, deviant or placing the marriage on the verge of divorce. Marriage areas for is a highly complex relationship, with multiple potential conflict. Contemporary marriage falls prey to dissatisfaction aAd stress far more than marriages of years gone by, where roles were traditionally more clearly defined and expectations were unchallenged. This paper serves to focus on the institution of marriage in western society and the changing face of marriage in contemporary society. Today there by married are many problems and difficulties experienced couples and not least of all, that of the extramarital affair. Treatment for the problem of infidelity proves an increasing challenge for clincians today. Methods and difficulties in this regard will be discussed. Five case studies from the writer's private practice case load will be presented to augment the preceding theoretical discussion. In describing the nature of the cases, highlights will be made of the salient variations in circumstances, treatment and outcome.
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Villegas, Megan A. "Last Rites." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1212086186.
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Santos, Lais Rocha. "Crenças e vivências da infidelidade na contemporaneidade." Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, 2018. http://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/9288.
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Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPESThe general aim of this paper is to analyze how Adultery has been felt, researched and lived in the contemporaneity. To do so, 3 studies were held. The study number 1 identified how this behavior has been investigated across the country by the national scientific communities by the use of a integrative review of literature. It was clear this subject is poorly investigated nationally, scientific journals report mostly about causes, repercussions and phenomena related to questions of the infidelity in the contemporaneity. The study number 2 analyzed quantitatively how the adultery has been realized and felt in the modern relationships; an online sociodemographic survey, scales and inventories were applied. The study also reported about proximity and distance between genders through infidelity experiences from main social constructs related to sexual satisfaction of married people. Important subjects linked to the adultery were reported, mainly the ones related to conjugality, sexuality, beliefs and thoughts about infidelity, marriage and the modernity itself which creates the possibility of having sex easily. The study number 3 reported about subjects related to adultery and the involved partners in such situation, plus the way which the infidelity is seen and felt in their relationships. Six people were interviewed and from their narratives it is possible to verify that setting up causes and predictors is a very dangerous path, which can reduce the multiplicity of involved factors. Beyond that it is relevant to discuss the satisfaction in the social environment and the way that relationships are made nowadays in the contemporaneity and its multiplicity of information, stimuli and new ways of relationships through the internet.
O objetivo geral deste trabalho foi realizar uma análise sobre como a infidelidade conjugal tem sido percebida, pesquisada e vivenciada no contexto contemporâneo. Para isso foram realizados três estudos. O Estudo 1 identificou de que forma o fenômeno vem sendo investigado no cenário científico nacional a partir de uma revisão integrativa da literatura. Percebeu-se que a temática é pouco investigada, as publicações analisadas versam mais sobre causas, repercussões e fenômenos atrelados, principalmente as questões emergentes do cenário contemporâneo. O Estudo 2 analisou quantitativamente como a infidelidade conjugal tem sido percebida e vivenciada nas relações contemporâneas, de forma online, por meio de questionário sociodemográfico, escalas e um inventário. O debate analisou também as proximidades e distanciamentos na questão dos gêneros em relação à prática, através das experiências infiéis e dos principais construtos relacionados à satisfação sexual e conjugal dos participantes. Questões importantes ligadas ao fenômeno da infidelidade foram observadas, com destaque para as questões atreladas à conjugalidade, aspectos ligados à satisfação sexual e conjugal, crenças prévias e pensamentos sobre o fenômeno e suas práticas, além da própria modernidade, seus reflexos nos relacionamentos e a questão do sexo facilitado. O Estudo 3 considerou as questões dos aspectos vivenciais atrelados ao fenômeno, na forma como se dão as crenças sobre a infidelidade, bem como a percepção e a vivência de sujeitos que viveram a infidelidade em seus relacionamentos. Foram 6 entrevistados e a partir de seus relatos foi possível perceber que o estabelecimento de causas e preditores é um caminho muito perigoso, diminuto, que acaba por reduzir a multiplicidade de questões e fatores envolvidos. Além disso, alguns pontos apresentaram-se bastante relevantes na discussão, como é o caso da satisfação, do contexto social e da forma como se dão as relações hoje, o mundo contemporâneo em sua multiplicidade de informações, estímulos e novas formas de se relacionar mediadas muitas vezes pelo meio virtual, que devem ser consideradas.
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Gonzalez, Karen Brown. "The drowned girl." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002403.
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Gonzalez, Karen Brown. "She Fell To Her Knees And Other Stories." Scholar Commons, 2004. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1048.
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These collected stories represent a culling from a portion of work that shares a similar theme of loss--its manifestation, its channeling, by various fictional characters, into the palpable and sensate, into the physical world of the body. They are people, mostly women, who have lost their hold on the world to which they are accustomed, who become entangled in situations where their bearings are skewed, their judgment faulty, their decisions based solely on a physical, most often sexual, attraction that simultaneously depletes a sense of worth, while providing its semblance.
The loss stems, at times, as in "Manifold," from beyond the control of the character, from the world of adults who cannot, for their own reasons, handle their own despair. It comes from the unavoidable presence of mental illness, and the inability of the character to perceive, amidst the confusion of change, a stable view. Often, as in "She Fell to Her Knees," there is no reference point upon which to base a way to live. Memory is only a trigger for more loss. The characters' own choices bring about loss in other ways--an abandoned infant, promiscuity, an encounter with a stranger--all choices made in an effort to ease, and which result in compounding precarious situations. Brief solace in sex results in inevitable emptiness. Relationships are sought for the safety of their impermanence. The respite from loneliness is always temporary, and almost always sought with the hope that from the physical will emerge the gift of emotional commitment. The stories seek to reveal, not the histories of the characters, but the maps of their emotional pasts. They attempt to portray the routes from which the women have stumbled, and in this way illuminate the emotional present of each story.
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Maier, Melissa Ann. "Relational transgressions in romantic relationships how individuals negotiate the revelation and concealment of transgression information within the social network /." CONNECT TO THIS TITLE ONLINE, 2008. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05272008-151121/.
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Barden, Abbey R. "Ignited Curiosity and Failed Dreams: Nineteenth-Century Masculine Fears of Females in Guy de Maupassant's 'Une Aventure Parisienne'and 'Le Signe'." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31971.
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Guy de Maupassantâ s short stories â Une Aventure Parisienneâ and â Le Signeâ tell the tales of two female protagonists caught by curiosity. In â Une Aventure Parisienne,â a notaryâ s wife (the petite provinciale) leaves her home and ventures to Paris in search of an affair with a celebrity. After finding one and sleeping with him, the petite provinciale becomes disillusioned with her fantasy: she returns home deflated from the realization that her celebrity snores and drools just as her husband does. The high-society protagonist in â Le Signe,â Madame de Grangerie, is also disenchanted with her interest in imitating the gesture of a prostitute she notices across the street. When faced with a male client she frantically gives in to what she has offered. Needing to reaffirm her identity as an â honnête femme,â she solicits advice from her friend on what to do if the client returns. While both protagonists do not face legal punishment for their affairs, they do confront personal consequences. The petite provincialeâ s dreams about celebrities burst and Madame de Grangerieâ s reputation appears at risk. Maupassant not only comments on feminine curiosity and adultery, but also on the internal effects such actions could potentially have on women of his time. In this thesis I argue that even though both protagonists act on their curiosities and flirt with private/public boundaries, the petite provinciale and Madame de Grangerie are ultimately presented through masculinized lenses. I also show how discursive nineteenth-century traditions of a limited view of female sexuality are reconstructed in Maupassantâ s tales.Master of Arts
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Chung, Moonsik. "Infection /." Link to online version, 2006. https://ritdml.rit.edu/dspace/handle/1850/2291.
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Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2006.Typescript. Film produced by Damul Films. Director, Moonsik Chung. Cast: Jonathan Flanigan, Ashley St. John-Yantz, Greg Petralis, Jesse Knight. Co-writer, Oreathia C. Smith.
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Coletti, Fabien. "Liaisons vénales et amours extra-conjugales à Venise au XVIe siècle : réalités sociales et représentations littéraires." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016TOU20122/document.
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Cette thèse confronte les deux figures féminines de la prostituée et de la femme adultère dans la société vénitienne du XVIe siècle. Elle aborde ces topoi dans une approche pluridisciplinaire qui mêle la lecture de textes littéraires tant publiés qu'inédits à l'étude des sources judiciaires de la Sérénissime. Loin de se contenter d'opposer une pulsion de liberté individuelle aux velléités de contrôle de l'appareil répressif, cette recherche entend préciser l'origine des tensions sexuelles dans les contradictions économiques, politiques et sociales qui régissent les rapports de genre dans la République de Venise. Dans un premier temps est définie la norme sexuelle et amoureuse de la société moderne, puis est précisée l'existence de plusieurs zones grises au sein desquelles amours licites et illicites se superposent, en particulier au moment de la séduction. Cette réflexion permet d'éclairer les spécificités de l'adultère féminin et de la prostitution comme formes de sexualité extra-conjugale. Nous pouvons ainsi tracer une histoire de la gestion de la prostitution par le gouvernement vénitien, qui reconnaît aux amours vénales un statut légal dont la classe dirigeante peut tirer profit, tout en montrant la complémentarité à son égard de la poésie antiputtanesca, souvent expression des préoccupations de cette même classe sociale. L'adultère est de la même manière envisagé comme une pratique contradictoire, violemment combattue par la loi mais partie intégrante du processus de formation des jeunes hommes avant leur mariage. Un aspect important du travail de recherche effectué consiste également dans la présentation de poèmes antiputtaneschi inédits, souvent anonymes, dont nous cherchons à reconstruire la riche intertextualitéThis dissertation aims to confront the two archetypes of the prostitute and the adulterous woman in the XVIth century Venetian society. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this text examines literary works – well known and unpublished – and the legal sources of the Serenissima. Looking beyond binary oppositions between individual desires for freedom and the repressive control apparatus by the State, this study works to clarify the ways in which the sexual tensions come from the economical, political and social contradictions which governed gender relationships in the republic of Venice. It first analyzes sexual and sentimental norms of the early-modern society. It will then define the ways in which licit and illicit love overlap, especially during the key moment of seduction. This will allow us to elucidate the specificities of female adultery and prostitution as forms of extra-conjugal sexuality. It will then be possible to trace the history of prostitution's management by the Venetian government. The latter recognized thea legal status of venal love, from which the ruling class could benefit. But we will also show how antiputtanesca poetry reflects the concerns of that social class. Adultery may similarly be seen as a contradictory practice, violently condemned by the law but part of young men's socialization before their wedding. Finally, one important aspect of this research stands in the presentation of various unpublished antiputtaneschi poems, often anonymous: we will display their rich intertextuality
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Fricker, Julie, and n/a. "Predicting infidelity the role of attachment styles, lovestyles, and the investment model." Swinburne University of Technology, 2006. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20060828.095633.
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Infidelity violates a western norm that a range of interpersonal behaviours
should remain exclusive in committed romantic relationships. Once exposed, the
aftermath can be detrimental to all concerned. However, despite a cultural majority
endorsing this belief and apprised of the potential consequences of its violations,
infidelity or extradyadic relationships are widespread. Furthermore, individual
differences in beliefs about what constitutes infidelity blur the boundaries of acceptable
behaviour, making the concept of unfaithfulness difficult to fully describe. This
variation in attitudes and behaviour, along with the consistent media attention infidelity
attracts affirms the enigmatic nature of the behaviour. In response, an aim of the study
was to clarify the construct of infidelity among a contemporary Australian sample. This
was achieved in two ways. Firstly, the study examined beliefs and behaviours
associated with unfaithfulness using qualitative (focus group) and largely quantitative
(survey) data. Secondly, the study involved investigation of the association between
infidelity and several individual, relationship and environmental variables. Differences
in relationships and environmental conditions can be conceptualised within the
theoretical framework of the investment model, while adult attachment theory and a
lovestyles typology offer theoretical underpinnings to the study of individual
differences. Specifically, the aim of this stage of the study was to examine how adult
attachment styles (anxious, avoidant), lovestyles (eros, ludus, storge, mania, pragma,
agape), relationship variables (satisfaction, investment, commitment), and an
environmental variable (perceived alternatives) predicted infidelity.
The sample comprised 243 women and 69 men between the ages of 18 and 60
years (M = 31.3 years, SD = 11.9) who were currently in a romantic relationship of at
least one year or who had recently been in such a relationship. Participants completed
measures pertaining to attachment, lovestyles and various aspects of relationship quality
in addition to several measures of extradyadic behaviour. The study found that
infidelity, as defined by respondents, was engaged in by 20% of individuals in their
current relationships and by 42% of individuals in their previous relationships.
Regarding the nature of infidelity, the current findings indicated that various sexual and
emotional behaviours carried out with someone other than one's primary partner were
considered unfaithful by the vast majority, while fantasy and flirting behaviours were
generally seen as acceptable. It was noteworthy, however, that a substantial minority also viewed fantasy as unfaithful, underlining the inherent complexity of the construct.
The hypotheses concerning the variables predicting infidelity were partially supported.
Results suggested that individuals most likely to engage in extradyadic behaviour were
those with an avoidant attachment style or a Ludus lovestyle, more perceived
alternatives to their relationship, and most unexpectedly, higher levels of investment in
their relationship. Conversely, those least likely to engage in these behaviours were
those with an Eros Lovestyle and greater levels of commitment to their relationship.
The study confirmed the prevalence of infidelity and emphasised the differential
attitudes, behaviours and motivations associated with it. These differences are discussed
in relation to the theories presented and an argument is made for research on infidelity
to take a broader focus, one that includes the combined aspects of individuals, their
relationships and the environment. Implications of these findings for individuals and
couples and for the professionals who work with them are discussed, along with
suggestions for future research.
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Mallick, Suman. "Apples and Knives (A Novel)." PDXScholar, 2016. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3023.
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ZULEIKHA, who was trained as a pianist in her hometown of Lahore, Pakistan, arrives in Irving, Texas after her arranged marriage to ISKANDER, but finds it difficult to get accustomed to the appurtenances, encumbrances, and perquisites of the middle-class housewife lifestyle. Despite giving birth to a son, WASIM, she quickly falls out of love with her dutiful but straight-laced husband. She begins giving private lessons, and commences an affair with PATRICK, a transplanted Canadian who is trapped in his own loveless marriage. When she gets pregnant, Zuleikha is convinced the child belongs to her husband. She ends her affair with Patrick, but Iskander finds out about it anyway. The ensuing confrontation between Zuleikha and Iskander turns into a physical altercation, during which Zuleikha, having fallen to the floor, is unable to see if Iskander stomps on her belly, or falls on her by accident as he will later claim. The trauma results in a miscarriage.
The unusual set of circumstances surrounding this violent episode serves as the backdrop for the rest of the story, by catapulting this otherwise nondescript couple into the glare of the public eye. Iskander is arrested and charged with feticide, and he faces a long prison sentence under Texas law. A court order prohibits him from contacting Zuleikha and Wasim, who are taken to a shelter for Muslim women and children. There, the other domestic abuse victims view Zuleikha as someone who "had it coming" because of her infidelity, and are therefore openly hostile to her. The shelter's director, a woman named REZA, is beholden to wealthy Muslim donors, and therefore arranges for Zuleikha to meet with members of a highly controversial Islamic tribunal. Zuleikha is pressured to forgive her husband and testify in his favor, so as not draw further negative attention to the Muslim community. JANE, the District Attorney, on the other hand, initially plays nice with Zuleikha and informs her that she will devote any and all available resources in the prosecution of Iskander. When Zuleikha can't get her story straight and hesitates about testifying against her husband, however, Jane, too, turns against her. Zuleikha discovers that the DA has been caught hiding her own secrets and now faces a public confidence crisis of her own. Zuleikha comes to realize that Jane's reasons for being so gung-ho about winning Iskander's conviction have as much to do with re-endearing herself to her electorate as with justice.
Zuleikha thus finds herself at the epicenter of a political firestorm fueled by winds of anti-Muslim hysteria, with different people trying to use her situation to their own advantage. When Wasim gets in a scuffle at the shelter and has to be taken to a clinic, she panics and contacts Iskander against her better judgment. Husband and wife finally confront each other while Wasim is being treated. Iskander claims to still love Zuleikha and begs her to take him back so that they and their son can resume their prior family life. But Zuleikha realizes that even if Iskander is sincere and not merely seeking reconciliation in order to avoid a harsh prison sentence, she will never be able to forgive him, let alone love him and live with him again. She comes to accept the fact that she has no control over Iskander's fate in court, and can only move forward by testifying truthfully and trying to do what is best for her and her son. While waiting for the trial to begin, she gains admission in a summer training program for piano instructors and begins the next phase of her life.
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Krug, Mark Jonathan. "Men who fail a redemptive journey /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p068-0595.
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Wong, Hoi-woon Amy, and 黃海媛. "A social worker's reflection on handling infidelity issues with violent couples." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2004. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43895426.
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Durdin, Andrew. "The Spectacle of the Sotah: A Rabbinic Perspective on Justice and Punishment." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07202007-192056/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2007.Title from file title page. Kathryn McClymond, committee chair; Timothy Renick, Louis Ruprecht, William Gilders, committee members. Electronic text (71 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Nov. 12, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-71).
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Siu, Leung Kit-sum Mary, and 蕭梁潔心. "Infidelity in marriages: implications on counselling." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1985. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31247532.
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Ng, Lai-ping, and 伍麗萍. "The study of mother's parental behavior and child's behavior as affected by father's affair." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B43893739.
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