ISBN:
9781978822863
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (254 pages)
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3 color illustrations, 4 tables
Series Statement:
Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
DDC:
306.81
Keywords:
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General
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Arranged marriage
Abstract:
Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation as a result of global and other processes such as the revolution of digital technology, democratization of transnational mobility, or shifting significance of patriarchal power structures. The ethnographically informed chapters not only highlight how the gendered and intergenerational politics of agency, autonomy, choice, consent, and intimacy work in the contexts of partner choice and management of marriage, but also point out that arranged marriages are increasingly varied and they can be reshaped, reinvented, and reinterpreted flexibly in response to individual, family, religious, class, ethnic and other desires, needs, and constraints. The authors convincingly demonstrate that a nuanced investigation of the reasons, complex dynamics, and consequences of arranged marriages offers a refreshing analytical lens that can significantly contribute to a deeper understanding of other phenomena such as globalization, modernization, international migration as well as patriarchal value regimes, intergenerational power imbalances, and gendered subordination and vulnerability of women
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2023)
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In English
DOI:
10.36019/9781978822863
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978822863
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978822863
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