Résultats pour "The Good Wife" dans Sciences sociales et politiques

From the joys and challenges of marriage to the beauty of everyday life, The Good Wife brings you real stories, thoughtful conversations, and inspiration to live with heart and purpose.

At 15, Samra Zafar had big dreams for herself. She was going to go to university, and forge her own path. Then with almost no warning, those dreams were pulled away from her when she was suddenly married to a stranger at 17 and had to leave behind her family in Pakistan to move to Canada. Her new husband and his family promised that the marriage and the move would be a fulfillment of her dream, not a betrayal of it. But as the walls of their home slowly became a prison, Samra realized the promises were empty ones.

Somewhere in the last 50 years, men and women forgot how to need each other. We convinced ourselves that independence was the highest virtue, that marriage was optional, and that gender roles were oppression. How's that working out? Marriage rates are at historic lows. Birth rates are collapsing.

Kate is a dress maker in the north of England who always did what was decided for her: serving those who come her way, marrying a man who is considered suitable, and living all her life "over the hills" she wants so desperately to cross. Until she decides her life are not enough for her. The novels she reads give her new ideas that change the course of her life forever. George Moore was an Irish realistic novelist. A Mummer's Wife was his second novel. At the time, the circulating libraries were those who published the mainstream novels. They were charged with publishing moral works. They ...