Couvade

Associated Documents (9)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Gray, J. PatrickInstitutionalized male transvestism, the couvade, and homosexual behavior
Davis, William N.A cross-cultural study of drunkenness
Broude, Gwen J.Rethinking the couvade: cross-cultural evidence
Munroe, Robert L.Male transvestism and the couvade: a psycho-cultural analysis
Munroe, Robert L.A response to broude on the couvade
Tylor, Edward B.On a method of investigating the development of institutions: applied to laws of marriage and d...
Paige, Jeffery M.The politics of reproductive ritual
Burton, Roger V.The absent father and cross-sex identity
Matlock, James GrahamA cross-cultural study of reincarnation ideologies and their social correlates

Associated Hypotheses (14)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Gray, J. PatrickThere is a negative association bettween the presence of the couvade in a society and the frequency of male homosexual behavior (58).
Davis, William N."The presence of this custom [couvade] was frequently associated with high drunkenness" (64)
Broude, Gwen J.There will be a correlation between father absence in infancy and the couvade (904).
Broude, Gwen J.Controlling for status envy, mother-infant sleeping arrangements and frequent matrilocality, along with father absence, will be correlated with the couvade (905).
Broude, Gwen J.There will be a relationship between protest masculinity and the couvade (907).
Munroe, Robert L.There will be a negative association between male transvestism and the couvade (52).
Munroe, Robert L.Exclusive mother-infant sleeping arrangements, matrilocal residence, and “protest masculinity” will be positively associated with the couvade (730-731).
Munroe, Robert L.Father-salience in infancy will be positively associated with the couvade (731).
Tylor, Edward B."This . . . custom [the couvade] . . . proves to be not merely incidentally an indicator of the tendency of society from maternal to paternal, but the very sign and record of that vast change" (10)
Paige, Jeffery M.Couvade is negatively associated with patrilocal and avunculocal residence patterns (203).
Paige, Jeffery M.Couvade is negatively associated with strength of fraternal interest groups (203).
Paige, Jeffery M.Couvade is negatively associated with dichotomized 'high-value' (agricultural, pastoral, & advanced horticultural) vs. 'low-value' (hunting-gathering, fishing, mounted hunting, & simple horticultural) subsistence strategies (203).
Burton, Roger V."Where the female status is seen as privileged both in infancy and in childhood . . . a man would have a strong optative feminine identity and the society should provide him some means to act out symbolically at least, the female role" (113)
Matlock, James Graham16) Reincarnation beliefs are positively associated with couvade.

Associated OCMs

  1. conception
  2. pregnancy
  3. postnatal care