Crossroad of gender and the institute of family: women's meaning of marriage and family life

In studying of gender and the institute of family in recent changes which is accompanied with tearing apart family shows that women are experiencing exiting of shadows and finding new identity. Studying women resident in Tehran city with the history of at least one marriage and divorce with grounded theory method shows a process that focuses on constructing meaning of marriage and family life that accordance with experience and redefinition of living space and the dimension of new identity. Women considering gendered demands like connection and intimacy and their raise of cultural and social capitals are going to change the one-gender public and private living space. This task due to unknown peculiarities and dimensions at one way and huge ignorance of paying attentions to changes at the other hand and ultimately lack of common language makes the situation ambiguous for men and women and makes family life confusing and discrete.