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Making the Right Choice: Narratives of Marriage in Sri Lanka

Making the Right Choice: Narratives of Marriage in Sri Lanka

Abeyasekera, Asha L.

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Series: Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts

Religion General General Gender StudiesGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 1978810318
ISBN13: 9781978810310
Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr
Published: Mar 12 2021
Pages: 228
Language: English

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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