Moving for Marriage (eBook)

Inequalities, Intimacy, and Women's Lives in Rural North India

Shruti Chaudhry (Autor)

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2021
313 Seiten
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-8559-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Shortlisted for the 2023 BASAS Book Prize presented by British Association for South Asian StudiesBased on ethnographic fieldwork in a village in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Moving for Marriage compares the lived experiences of women in "e;regional"e; marriages (that conform to caste and community norms within a relatively short distance) with women in "e;cross-regional"e; marriages (that traverse caste, linguistic, and state boundaries and entail long-distance migration within India). By demonstrating how geographic distance and regional origins make a difference in these women's experiences, Shruti Chaudhry challenges stereotypes and moral panics about cross-regional brides who are brought from far away. Indeed, Moving for Marriage highlights the ways in which the post-marital experiences of both categories of wives in this study-their work and social relationships, their sexual lives and childbearing decisions, and their ability to access support in everyday contexts and in the event of marital distress-are shaped by factors such as caste, class/poverty, religion, and stage in the life-course. In focusing on this Global South context, Chaudhry makes novel arguments about the development of intimacy within marriages that are inherently unequal and even violent, thereby offering an alternative to Euro-American understandings of intimacy and women's agency.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2021
• Reihe/Serie: SUNY series, Genders in the Global South
• Reihe/Serie: SUNY series, Genders in the Global South
• Zusatzinfo: Total Illustrations: 13
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• ISBN-10: 1-4384-8559-X / 143848559X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-8559-1 / 9781438485591