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Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage Around the World

Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage Around the World

Davidson, Joanna
Hannaford, Dinah
Davidson, Joanna

Hardcover

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

AnthropologyGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 1978830114
ISBN13: 9781978830110
Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr
Published: Nov 11 2022
Pages: 260
Language: English
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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