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Libro 6 de 16: Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts

Abeyasekera, Asha L.

 
9781978810303: Making the Right Choice: Narratives of Marriage in Sri Lanka (Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts)
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ISBN 10: 197881030X ISBN 13: 9781978810303
Editorial: Rutgers University Press, 2021

Sinopsis

Making the Right Choice unravels the entangled relationship between marriage, morality, and the desire for modernity as it plays out in the context of middle-class status concerns and aspirations for upward social mobility within the Sinhala-Buddhist community in urban Sri Lanka. By focusing on individual life-histories spanning three generations, the book illuminates how narratives about a gendered self and narratives about modernity are mutually constituted and intrinsically tied to notions of agency. The book uncovers how "becoming modern" in urban Sri Lanka, rather than causing inter-generational conflict, is a collective aspiration realized through the efforts of bringing up educated and independent women capable of making "right" choices. The consequence of this collective investment is a feminist conundrum: agency does not denote the right to choose, but the duty to make the "right" choice; hence agency is experienced not as a sense of "freedom," but rather as a burden of responsibility.

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ASHA L. ABEYASEKERA is a senior lecturer in the faculty of graduate studies at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka.

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Editorial
Rutgers University Press
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
197881030X
ISBN 13 
9781978810303
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
228
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