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The sexual economy prevalent within universities, as well as how young people perceive, interpret, and experience their sexuality, present complex dynamics, which, if not handled with great emotional intelligence, may disrupt their educational aspirations. This paper investigates the psycho-social implications of "semester marriages" within institutions of higher learning. Guided by principles of the qualitative approach and the theory of planned action, the paper disinterred that students experienced intense regret and guilt as a result of backstreet abortions. Soul-tie complications emanating from sharing the "wife-husband" bond also made it difficult for some students to move on after a breakup, leading to disruptions in their educational focus. In extreme cases, such an inability to deal with the adverse effects of "semester marriages" culminated in crimes of passion. The paper desists from pathologizing the "semester marriages" phenomenon and advocates for the strengthening of psycho-social support modalities within university settings to increase the accessibility and visibility of therapeutic services through a school social work model. Furthermore, universities, in partnership with other relevant stakeholders, are urged to prioritize sexual and reproductive education and services among the youth as provided for in the Constitution of Zimbabwe of 2013 to impart life skills that can equip students to make informed sexual and reproductive decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the varied views of South African immigrants who originate from Zimbabwe on the role of traditional and LGBTQIA leaders in marriages. Despite their perspectives, neither South African traditional leaders nor LGBTQIA leaders are authorised to officiate weddings. This inconsistency creates numerous challenges in terms of solemnising and maintaining marriages, particularly for undocumented South African immigrants who live in the country without visas or permits. The paper presents an Afrocentric analysis of various perspectives gathered on the idea that marriage is the foundation of human existence. It uses mixed methods to gather data and thematic analysis to analyse it. The paper highlights different views on the role of traditional and LGBTQIA leaders in marriages, as believed by the South African immigrant community. The research found that South African immigrants of Zimbabwean origin believe that the constitution should authorise traditional and LGBTQIA leaders to solemnize marriages in their communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper deals with the first Ptochoprodromic poem's treatment of the early patristic tradition. Its focus is on the conjugal life of the Ptochoprodromic couple, whose interaction is compared to the precepts of the Byzantine Fathers on the ideal Christian marital life. Evidently, the poet parodies the tradition to which the said precepts belong, offering a comic image of the ideal Christian couple in which gender roles have been reversed. Moreover, the final scene of the poem, where the husband disguises himself, is linked to the hagiographical tradition of cross-dressing women, as well as of male saints in disguise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A sexual instinct is a basic biological urge in humans to experience sexual pleasure and beget progeny through sexual relations. However, it is considered a sacred act of procreation in Indian culture and society. For most Indians, a woman is a personification of the mother goddess and her sexuality is a sacramental subject of worship. But the gulf between the ideal imagery and the real-life situation of a woman is a glitch in her sexual expression and choices. Irrespective of the projection of women's inherent sexual energy as being sacred, it is deeply controlled and structured by social institutions. She is not a free sexual being but a situated mother; her sexual choices are located within the institution of marriage maintained exclusively for getting a male heir for the family lineage. This paper expounds and explores the pervasive but ignored women's unseen sexual coercion in the form of maternal choice in Indian society. The dichotomy presented in the symbolic representations of the mother goddess's powerful sexuality--illustrated in mythologies and scriptures, and the social construction of real-life mothers' sexuality influence their choices. It also investigates how her maternal sexual choices are devalued, and viewed as unreal, unethical, and sinful activity. Lastly, it may be said that the divine projection of women as mother Goddesses and the exaltation of their procreative capacity deprive them of their sexual choices. It appears as a free choice but there is a hidden coercion that women fail to understand is the greatest cause of their sexual enslavement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on Kyrgyz women in cross-border marriages under Türkiye's increasingly tight legal requirements for marriage migration. Although the main intention of the policy change was to prevent marriages contracted to gain residency permits in Türkiye, strict regulations can have an adverse effect on migrant women's position. Based on in-depth interviews with 24 key informants including Kyrgyz women, public employees, lawyers and staff of the Kyrgyz Consulate, this paper argues that legal and social difficulties weaken women's position in cross-border marriages and render them vulnerable to male violence. Under the strict control, migrant women embrace traditional gendered roles such as becoming religious and a "good housewife," having children as well as limiting their social relationships. Moreover, women do not seek official support against any male violence especially during the time of obligatory marriage period of three years to be able to apply for a citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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From the specialised literature, we know that divorce is a demographic event of particular importance, which directly affects two other events: the marriage rate by reducing the number of marriages and, implicitly, the birth rate because the family is the social institution that favours children's birth. This demographic phenomena in Romania have aroused the interest of sociologists and psychologists who, in their research, deal with the causes, dynamics and consequences of divorces on divorced partners and the relationship between divorced parents-children-family. The demographic analysis of birth, mortality, marriage and divorce was the subject of some chapters in treatises on general demography, textbooks, and articles based on descriptive statistical analysis or dissemination of statistical data. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of divorces and divorciality in post-communist Romania (1990-2022). Our research is based on data provided by the National Institute of Statistics, population and housing census data (rounds 1992, 2002, 2011 and 2021), and Eurostat data for comparative analysis. We have adopted a sociodemographic perspective, utilizing a complex methodology that includes descriptive statistical analysis, boxplot analysis, cartographic analysis, Pearson correlation, multivariate regression, and analysis of regression residuals. This comprehensive approach ensures the reliability and validity of our findings. A particularity of this research is the appraisal of the weights of certain social groups to determine their territorial influence. Thus, by representing the share of the divorced population in the total resident population of Romania, according to the data from the censuses, a synthesis of the behaviour of people depending on the marital status manifested in space and time is expected. The cartographic analysis of divorciality based on data from the Population and Housing Census - 2021 round describes the dynamic of this demographic phenomena. It is the first research on divorce carried out using data from the population and housing censuses in Romania after 1990. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Marriage is a social institution that maintains the basic structure of a society. However, when this basic structure gets shaken by different knowledge systems encountered by the society during its course of history, a conflicting situation develops. This paper attempts to understand the nature of the marriage system of the Kom tribe of Manipur, who, of late, have been faced with a situation when conflicting wisdoms, namely, traditional, Christianity, and modern logicorational scientific knowledge, come into play with almost equal emphasis. With the advent of Christianity and modern lifestyle, the Kom people have been increasingly exposed to complex and conflicting developments arising from direct encounters between custom-oriented pre-Christian (traditional) and Christian systems, and taking a liberal outlook toward marriage as an influence of modernity. This article makes an attempt to throw light on how society deals with the marriage system with all the changes revealed by it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A woman as a mother in Indian society is a subject of great reverence. The mother is considered an embodiment of the divine mother goddess. But due to the pronatalist Indian social structure, a woman has less value outside of marriage and motherhood. The question arises here—as a personified goddess, is she equally valued in her real life and free to make her procreative choices as an independent Self? There is continued inequality and persistent sexism between men and women that structure the way they are viewed in society. Men construct the idea of women from their own perspective instead of what women are in reality, expressing themselves as the subject and women as “the other.” Ancient scriptures state that a woman is created to facilitate men in the act of procreation. For this, society further imposes various restrictions on her subjectivity through social practices to control her sexuality and maternal body. This paper explores and examines the social layers of a woman in general, and the way mythology perpetuates the idea and influences her life even today. Illustrations of various mythological texts glorify her position solely as subjugated procreator and caregiver, not as a woman as self but as mother and the other. In the contemporary social context of globalization and the consequential challenges presented to the traditional ways of life, the contentious issues in relation to these texts will be taken up for discussion and analysis. This paper concludes with caution that a real woman cannot be seen as the personification of goddesses in relation to the oppressive elements of a patriarchal society. Her pseudo-glorification merely unravels her enslaved otherness, and cannot be her empowered Self. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I examine the understanding of agency among the tribal young women attending college in Pratapgarh (Rajasthan), India. Particularly in light of this shift in their living and academic spaces, I look at how they interpret and perform their agency when it comes to being in a romantic relationship and getting married. It is not uncommon for tribal members to engage in romantic relationships and to seek love marriages. The number of young women migrating for education is increasing. As a result of educational migration, the practice of live-in relationships, romantic relationships, and love marriages has also increased over time among tribal youths. The data for this study were collected over nine months from interviews, group decisions, and participant observation of tribal young women in places they frequent, such as college campuses, hostels, homes, markets, and parks. In addition, the narratives of their parents and other family members are also analyzed to explore this aspect of agency, space, and marriage. In various domains encompassing academic and domestic spheres, my investigation has revealed that tribal young women exhibit agency concerning their involvement in romantic relationships and their preferences for either love or arranged marriages. Notably, a prevailing pattern emerges among most of my participants, regardless of their current romantic status or chosen marital arrangement, which centers around their post-wedding aspirations to pursue their education and attain government employment, thereby fostering financial independence. For these participants, marriage serves as a conduit through which they can sustain their educational pursuits even after entering into matrimony, facilitated by the support and assistance from their partner and in-laws. In addition to providing emotional and moral encouragement, these marital arrangements offer financial assistance, further reinforcing the participants' willingness to embrace matrimony while pursuing their education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper analyzes the integration processes of international marriage migrants in Japan and South Korea and identifies the steps and conditions required for integration. It contributes to the wider discussion of obstacles that migrants face during the integration process. Despite Japan and South Korea's reluctance toward the influx of large numbers of international migrants, their stance is more positive toward (female) marriage migrants. The qualitative data used for the analysis were collected by authors during the period between 2007 and 2022 on women from former Soviet Union countries, married to South Korean (54) or Japanese (50) men. The analysis of women's experiences identifies four major steps leading to receiving society integration: Pre-migration, arrival, early years and long-term settlement. The findings show that early language acquisition and receiving family support resulted in relatively smooth integration. However, human capital appears to be both a driver and an obstacle to integration. Furthermore, mismatched gender role expectations, limited social networks and employment opportunities increased difficulties in the integration process. Additionally, stronger ties with the receiving family and weaker ties with the home countries influenced women's decision to settle in the country. The largest differences between Japan and South Korea were the higher employment opportunities for marriage migrants in South Korea, especially for those with professional skills and Korean language knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BACKGROUND Previous studies on the role of partner choice in relationship dissolution have shown that exogamous marriages often have higher divorce risks. Yet, given that these studies focus only on marriages, it remains unclear whether the same dynamics can be seen in unmarried cohabiting couples, or what the exact role of a premarital cohabitation period is. OBJECTIVE This paper aims to examine whether the link between union dissolution and endogamy differs across relationship types by comparing marriages with and without a period of premarital cohabitation and unmarried cohabiting couples. METHODS Based on survival analyses and multivariate event history models, this study analyzes union dissolution risks among married and unmarried cohabiting couples with at least one partner of Belgian, Southern European, Turkish, Moroccan, Congolese, Burundian, or Rwandan descent. We use longitudinal data from the Belgian National and Social Security registers for a sample of couples formed between 1999 and 2001. RESULTS The results indicated that exogamous direct marriages have substantially higher risks of relationship dissolution. Yet, differences in dissolution risks between exogamous and endogamous couples with and without a migrant background become smaller or disappear entirely when unmarried cohabitation is involved. CONTRIBUTION This paper contributes to the literature on endogamy and union dissolution by going beyond the study of marriages. In contexts where unmarried cohabitation has become a common entry point to relationship formation but still has different meanings among majority and minority populations, this paper shows that cohabitation can no longer be disregarded when studying the link between endogamy and relationship dissolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the methods of recognizing customary marriages conducted between Indigenous participants within Canada and South Africa, respectively. It primarily focuses on the functional and philosophical consequences of these methods on the validity of the customary marriages. This paper begins by establishing the problem of misrecognition, which is an injustice that devalues and dehumanizes marital relationships that differ from the European norm. It then turns to an analysis of the forms of recognition in both Canada and South Africa. The former is examined through an investigation of historical case law and more recent constitutional issues, while the latter analysis focuses on statutory requirements and their interpretation by the courts. Each of the sections are followed by a substantive and functional critique of each country's system. The final section introduces a theoretical proposal for recognizing customary marriages in Canada in a way that would best achieve justice for their Indigenous participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Marriage is a tightly controlled aspect of women's lives in India. It marks a woman as a 'wellsettled' adult. There are master narratives in India that govern when, whom and how women marry. This paper is a testimony to two young women resisting pressure to marry. It captures practices and ideas that were helpful in shifting our conversations from pathologising women and their families to challenging the larger sociopolitical master narratives that compel women to marry in pursuit of a thinly described 'good life'. This paper illustrates women's agency and knowledge about living an independent adult life. It invites ways of coming together with family to unite against pressure to marry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with Martin Buber's claim that responsibility "is the basic theme of my work in general." As I show in the opening section of the article, his statement applies to the dialogical period of his work, but not the pre-dialogical. In the mystical phase of Buber's thought there is no place for responsibility because the very nature of mysticism excludes that possibility. The incompatibility of mysticism and interpersonal responsibility is confirmed in the autobiographical fragment "conversion," one of the two biographical moments I discuss in relation to the shift in his thinking on responsibility. The second is his relationship with his wife Paula Winkler, which profoundly influenced his thinking about the importance of love and marriage for an understanding of responsibility. I then explore his view of responsibility as a doctrine, which developed along with his dialogical philosophy. Finally, I examine his critical views on four basic ways of avoiding responsibility, which highlight the close connection between freedom and responsibility: belief in fate, individualism, collectivism, and religious acosmism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rituals and ceremonies in the Western tradition, give priority to the spoken word and various kinds of declarations. But in the Asian tradition, there is also an appreciation for the unspoken. In this article, the researcher will examine the non-verbal communication which takes place in the Shinto marriage ritual. The marriage is accomplished without "words," "announcements," or "declarations." The consummation of the marriage takes place when the couple quietly drinks the sacred liquid, three times in three different cups, for a total of nine times. It is only then the marriage is accomplished. By investigating such a ritual in the Japanese culture or Eastern culture, the paper also suggests limits to Western speech act theory as developed by John Searle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper explores the methods of recognizing customary marriages conducted between Indigenous participants within Canada and South Africa, respectively. It primarily focuses on the functional and philosophical consequences of these methods on the validity of the customary marriages. This paper begins by establishing the problem of misrecognition, which is an injustice that devalues and dehumanizes marital relationships that differ from the European norm. It then turns to an analysis of the forms of recognition in both Canada and South Africa. The former is examined through an investigation of historical case law and more recent constitutional issues, while the latter analysis focuses on statutory requirements and their interpretation by the courts. Each of the sections are followed by a substantive and functional critique of each country’s system. The final section introduces a theoretical proposal for recognizing customary marriages in Canada in a way that would best achieve justice for their Indigenous participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, based on the Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk -- the first Turkish dictionary -- the female gender is analysed through the categories of 'women and their social status', 'perception of women from the perspective of gender', 'woman-man relationships and family structure', 'responsibilities of women', and 'clothes and belongings of women'. These categories are determined in the context of the data provided by the definitions of the words related to women in the dictionary. It can be seen from the dictionary that women are classified in terms of social status and that they are part of a hierarchical structure. On the other hand, a woman is perceived as the representative of beauty and aesthetics by being described in terms of physical and inner beauty. In addition, a woman is also described as being coquettish, flirtatious, and crafty. In the dictionary, where it seems that a woman is respected as a wife and mother, it was discovered that marriage and family were highly esteemed, that many cultural rituals were practised in the processes of becoming a bride, that having and raising children was considered important, and that there were relations between spouses based on mutual rights and responsibilities. When the dictionary is analysed in terms of women's clothing and belongings, it can be seen that a great number of things and ways of adornment are mentioned and that being beautiful is highly esteemed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: This paper investigates the association between family formation intentions of marriage and childbearing in connection to moving intentions in early life course in Central and Eastern Europe. Background: While connections between intentions in Western Europe has received some scholarly attention, the link between marriage, having children and moving intentions has been largely overlooked in Central and Eastern Europe. We look at the connection between these intentions in the region. Method: We hypothesise that intentions to marry, have children and move may be positively related, negatively related or not related at all; and that gender serves as a channel through which the connection between family formation intentions and intention to move is expressed. In order to verify the hypotheses, we use Generations and Gender Survey data round 1 wave 1 focusing on the analytical sample based on individuals between 17 and 49 year olds from 5 Central and Eastern European countries. We run seemingly unrelated bivariate ordered probit regressions to estimate the relationship between the intentions. Results: We find a positive association between family formation intentions and intention to move. However, there is no evidence suggesting this association is channelled through gender. Conclusion: There exists an indication that intentions of marriage, childbearing and moving are joint. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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A well-documented trend in family demography is that young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds tend to enter their first partnership earlier and forego marriage more often than their advantaged counterparts. Yet, limited research has explored whether there is also an association between parental background and expectations for partnership formation, which are considered important precursors of behaviours. Further, few studies have explored the potential mechanisms mediating these differences. This paper uses data from the British Household Panel Survey and Understanding Society to analyse the relationships between parental socioeconomic status and young Britons' expectations for marriage, cohabitation, and attitudes towards ideal age at marriage. Using the KHB decomposition as a mediation method, we verify whether these relationships are explained by two mechanisms measured during the young adults' adolescence: family structure socialisation and academic socialisation. We find that marriage expectations are socially stratified in the UK. Those from the least advantaged backgrounds have significantly lower expectations for marriage than the most advantaged, but this difference does not hold for cohabitation. Those from the least advantaged backgrounds are also more uncertain about their ideal age at marriage. Academic socialisation mediates these relationships to a limited extent. Family structure socialisation mediates a greater percentage, especially living with a single parent, rather than married parents, during adolescence. • We analyse the link between parental SES and young Britons' partnership expectations, or attitudes toward marriage age. • KHB decomposition quantified mediation of these links via family structure or educational aspirations during adolescence. • Those from the least advantaged backgrounds have, on average, lower marriage expectations than their well-off counterparts. • No socioeconomic differences were found in the cohabitation expectations. • Further, low-SES young adults are more uncertain regarding their age at marriage or whether to marry at all. • Experiencing a lone-parent family rather than one with married parents mediates the highest percentage of these differences. • Mediation is, however, still partial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article traces the strategies followed by two family groups towards wealth accumulation in fifteenth-century Cyprus, by examining their marriage alliances, wider kinship relations and shifting religious alignments. The fifteenth century was a testing time for the inhabitants of the island, as they experienced successive bouts of plague epidemics and foreign invasion (Mamluks 1424-26), as well as suffering the effects of civil war. While the fortunes of some Cypriot families declined, others successfully navigated the shifting power balances. Zooming out, they paper will re-assess the island's place within the business and trading networks, which stretched across the Mediterranean. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper, based on a short story titled "The Darling" written by Anton Chekhov, aims to study the protagonist Olenka Smyonovna's mind from a psychoanalytic lens. Despite carrying a lifelong secluded and helpless status, Olenka never surrenders to the one way command of life. In fact, she extends her soft and gentle hands to grip someone related or unrelated to blood to be dependent upon wholeheartedly. Both fate and death play a villainous role so successfully that she changes her focus and options one after another. Although Olenka married twice as a part of an intolerant reality, she has failed to determine a perpetual life equation. Therefore, all her conscious desires and dreams have been repressed directly by the unjust force of uncertainty. This paper examines how the story has reflected both Freudian unconscious and Jungian collective unconscious focusing several necessary issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is about embodied interaction with digital products and systems, and more specifically, about its aesthetics. We establish a particular form of aesthetics: the aesthetics of coupling. We start with illustrating them by presenting two design research projects, the rich actions camera and the Experimental Payment Terminal. We discuss the characteristics of the aesthetics and coin their corner stone concepts, the persistent and the temporal. After that, we present the design process of two conceptual products: a night lamp and a medication dispenser. Both projects demonstrate how to design for the aesthetics of coupling. In a reflection, we position the aesthetics of coupling among several existing perspectives on interaction aesthetics and elaborate on their significance for the design community. We conclude this paper by highlighting the broad lines of our framework and by indicating directions for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a corpus-based method for extracting users' explicit preferences from free-text part of the registered user profile in Indian matchmaking system using Second order Co-occurrence PMI (SOC-PMI).In online Indian matrimonial system, while registering, users are asked to provide information about themselves, family and the qualities he/she is looking for in a desired partner but there is no means to automatically prioritize the desired partner features (which features are more important to him/her and it varies from person to person) except for explicitly asking the user. Extraction of users' preferences from unconstrained attributes has not been explored yet. This motivates us to extract users' preferences from an unexplored area. The contribution of this paper is focused on the above gap found in the research. The methodology explained in this paper automatically prioritizes these features which can be used to design a Weighted Reciprocal Recommendation model to generate more efficient recommendations. Experimental results show the efficiency of the applied methodology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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International sociological research based on demographic data has shown that the COVID-19 pandemic significantly shaped the way of getting married. According to this research, varying from minimal to dramatic, there was a decrease in marriage rates worldwide. The marriage rate in Hungary showed a different picture. The number of weddings increased by 3%. It can also be seen that the number of marriages per month during the pandemic tended to decrease in periods of severe restrictions and lockdowns and to increase in periods of temporary loosening. While the period of restrictions was characterized by civil ceremonies and micro-weddings, the period of loosening the restrictions saw a mixture of large and tiny weddings, with or without civil marriages. So, people did not postpone or proceed with their weddings but tried to stick to their original plans despite, or rather besides, the changed circumstances; or, abandoning certain expectations and inventing new ones, they rescheduled their wedding. Based on my digital anthropological research, this paper raises questions: why did some people get married during the lockdown periods, or why did others postpone their weddings until after the restrictions were loosened? In the following, I aim to explore the modified wedding practices adapted to newer circumstances and analyze the ways of selecting and constituting the wedding “tradition” (“bricolage of traditions”). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

BACKGROUND While there has been extensive research on trends in marriage and singlehood, few studies have examined heterogeneity among never-married individuals in a low-fertility context. As a country that has experienced a steady decline in marriage and an accompanying rise in singlehood, Singapore presents a compelling context in which to study the singlehood phenomenon. OBJECTIVE This study aims to understand variations in the never-married population based on their family-related attitudes. It seeks to classify the never married into subgroups and examine how these groups relate in terms of their sociodemographic traits and marriage desires. METHODS Using data from the Perceptions of Singles on Marriage and Having Children study (N = 1,980), latent class analysis was performed to develop a typology of the never married. Latent class analysis applies a person-centered approach to identify heterogeneity between and homogeneity within subgroups based on associations among a set of observed indicators. RESULTS Four never-married subgroups were identified: family conservatives (37%), conflicted conservatives (24%), family progressives (22%), and family skeptics (17%). There were distinct characteristics among subgroups in terms of age, sex, and relationship status. A strong gradient in marriage desires was found across the never-married subgroups, implying that variations between subgroups are an important determinant of the desire to marry. CONCLUSIONS The paper highlights the importance of recognizing diversity among the never-married population as a first step to understanding the flight from marriage. CONTRIBUTION These findings have implications for societies with declining marriage and fertility rates, especially in contexts where marriage is closely linked to childbearing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper examines patterns in the timing of widows' remarriage in the 18th-century Transylvanian capital city of Hermannstadt/Sibiu, based on a sample of 405 marriages contracted by Lutheran widows in this area between roughly 1755 and 1794. It regards this time frame as being able to reveal how factors encouraging or, alternately, discouraging remarriage after widowhood worked in practice. The study offers a descriptive analysis of the sample, focusing on the main known characteristics of the individuals involved, including the former and new spouse's social status (as measured by HISCLASS), the former spouse's age, the new spouse's migration status, and their marital status prior to contracting the marriage to a widow. Additionally, it provides a deeper understanding of potential delays in remarriage by creating a sub-sample of 131 marriage events linked to the probate inventories compiled after the first spouse's death, which offer a glimpse of the economic and familial situations in which widows found themselves at the time of experiencing this transition in marital status. A third section looks at how these factors worked together to influence widows' remarriage timing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]