Romantic Unions in an Era of Uncertainty

A Post-Moynihan Perspective on African American Women and Marriage

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9763101
AutoresLinda M Burton (Duke University, autor correspondente), M Belinda Tucker (0000-0001-9823-7185, University of California, Los Angeles)
Ano2009
Volume621
Fascículo1
Páginas132-148
Data de publicação2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0002716208324852
OpenAlexW2160889972
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas45
Referências citadas45

This article provides a brief overview of how African American women are situated in and around the thesis of the Moynihan Report. The authors take the lens of uncertainty and apply it to a post-Moynihan discussion of African American women and marriage. They discuss uncertainty in the temporal organization of poor women's lives and in the new terrains of gender relationships and how both influence African American women's thoughts and behaviors in their romantic relationships and marriages. They argue that much is to be learned from by focusing the lens in this way. It allows us to look at the contemporary romantic relationship and marriage behaviors of African American women in context and in ways that do not label them as having pathological behaviors that place them out of sync with broader societal trends

African american · Context (archaeology · Perspective (graphical · Psychoanalysis · Romance · Situated · Sociology · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender Studies · History · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges