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almahu_9949546532602882
Format:
1 online resource (260 p.) :
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3 b&w images
ISBN:
9781978830134
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9783110993899
Series Statement:
Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
Content:
Women around the world are opting out of marriage. Through nuanced ethnographic accounts of the ways that women are moving the needle on marital norms and practices, Opting Out reveals the conditions that make this widespread phenomenon possible in places where marriage has long been obligatory. Each chapter invites readers into the lives of particular women and the changing circumstances in which these lives unfold - sometimes painfully, sometimes humorously, and always unexpectedly. Taken together, the essays in this volume prompt the following questions: Why is marriage so consistently disappointing for women? When the rewards of economic stability and the social status that marriage confers are troubled, does marriage offer women anything compelling at all? Across diverse geographic contexts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, this book offers sensitive and powerful portrayals of women as they escape or reshape marriage into a more rewarding arrangement.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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Series Foreword --
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Introduction --
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PART ONE. Never Married --
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1. Almost Married --
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2. Single in Botswana --
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3. Freedom to Choose? --
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4. Single Women's Invisibility in South Korea's First Decades --
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PART TWO. Outside of Marriage --
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5. Pathivratha Precarity --
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6. Respectability and Black Brazilian Women's Decisions to "Opt Out" of Remarriage --
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7. The Upward Mobility of Matrifocality and the Enigma of Bajan Marriage --
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8. Messing with Remarriage --
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PART THREE. Within Marriage --
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9. Extramarital Intimacy --
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10. "What's Wrong with These Mens?" --
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11. The Appeal of Absent Husbands in Contemporary Senegal --
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12. "Not a Normal Wife" --
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Acknowledgments --
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References --
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Notes on Contributors --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110994810
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993752
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110993738
In:
Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023, De Gruyter, 9783110791303
Language:
English
Keywords:
Aufsatzsammlung
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Electronic books.
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.36019/9781978830134
URL:
https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978830134
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978830134
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