ISBN:
9781978810341
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 214 Seiten)
Series Statement:
The politics of marriage and gender: Global issues in local contexts
DDC:
306.81095493
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
;
Arranged marriage
;
Marriage
;
Social change
Abstract:
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
DOI:
10.36019/9781978810341
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978810341
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978810341
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