Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage Around the World (Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts) - Tapa blanda

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9781978830103: Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage Around the World (Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts)
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ISBN 10: 1978830106 ISBN 13: 9781978830103
Editorial: Rutgers University Press, 2022

Sinopsis

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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JOANNA DAVIDSON is an associate professor of anthropology at Boston University. She is the author of Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa.

DINAH HANNAFORD is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Houston. She is the author of Marriage Without Borders: Transnational Spouses in Neoliberal Senegal.


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Editorial
Rutgers University Press
Año de publicación
2022
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1978830106
ISBN 13 
9781978830103
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
260
Editor
Davidson Joanna, Hannaford Dinah
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ISBN 10:  1978830114 ISBN 13:  9781978830110
Editorial: Rutgers University Press, 2022
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