Daniel Jordan Smith
The transition from premarital intimate relationships and courtship to wedding and parenthood in southeastern Nigeria involves especially dramatic modifications for young ladies who have actually consumed changing a few ideas about sex, wedding, and gender equality, and who may have had active premarital sexual life. Within the eyes of culture, these ladies must transform from being promiscuous girls to good wives. This paper examines these corrections and, particularly, exactly exactly exactly how young hitched women’s lives are influenced by the truth of male infidelity and a persistent gendered dual standard about the acceptability of extramarital intercourse.
In Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria, as with a great many other elements of the entire world, teenagers increasingly suppose being in love is a foundation so you can get hitched (Hirsch and Wardlow 2006, Cole and Thomas 2009). Continue reading “Promiscuous Girls, Good Spouses, and Cheating Husbands: Gender Inequality, Transitions to Marriage”