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This current study has emerged from two decades of the author's investigations in related areas: alcoholism and domestic relations. Its canvas is broadly comparative, drawing on interviews and data gathered in the United States and Finland. The domestic drama of The Other Half is played out both in the private scene of the home and the more public scene of the workplace, and against these two differing national backgrounds. Despite the many expected and perceived cultural differences between the countries, the effects of alcoholism on the family are shown to be the same.
Dr. Wiseman's study offers theoretical insights gleaned from its perspective on alcoholism as an interactive phenomenon,to which the concepts of G.H. Mead and Blumer can be applied to illuminate the carefully presented data and go beyond them. New terrain in studies of alcoholism is thereby explored, including such themes as the social construction by the subjects of their husbands' drinking, their marriage and their self-images; the strategy of coping mechanisms; and the effects of the crisis of alcoholism on gender, sex roles, and power differentials.
The Other Half complements Dr. Wiseman's prize-winning work on the treatment of Skid Row alcoholics, Stations of the Lost, while involving issues of greater complexity on both the methodological and theoretical plane.
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Dean CAmpling
reviewed The other half on January 09, 2019
The other half
Informative, if not quite pinpointing the cultural moment. For an example of Marriage Shock struggling to relate to readers in the modern day, consider the Bobbits. The book spends several paragraphs on Lorena Bobbitt, who was often featured in the tabloids of the 90s as the butt of jokes or who was otherwise demonized. Whereas in 2019 not only is Lorena Bobbitt hardly in the news, when she is it's about the domestic abuse she endured, and the nonprofit work she has been involved with for her adult life.
The small things aside, Marriage Shock asks readers (it's directed towards women) to consider how marriage casts a long shadow in the mental health of brides. Heyn makes a compelling case that marriage as an institution is fit only for men and that marriages which thrive are able to do so only after dismantling the institution from the inside to create a more hospitable framework. The book offers wives the tools to rewrite the story of marriage; if you've ever felt like winning love means losing yourself in a hetero relationship, then Marriage Shock also offers comfort and hope.
I would like to see an examination of how marriage works for gay and lesbian couples within Heyn's theory -- do both women bring the icon of the Wife to the table?
With updated statistics and an examination how queer couples experience (or don't) marriage shock, Heyn's work could find a wide audience today.
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