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Making the Right Choice - Asha L. Abeyasekera

Making the Right Choice

Narratives of Marriage in Sri Lanka
Buch | Hardcover
228 Seiten
2021
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-1031-0 (ISBN)
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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.
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.

ASHA L. ABEYASEKERA is a senior lecturer in the faculty of graduate studies at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka.

Series Foreword by Péter Berta

Introduction

1 – Sinhala Marriage Practices: Then and Now

2 – Making the ‘Right’ Choice                                                                                  

3 – Structuring the ‘Right’ Choice

4 – The Virtuous Self: Failed Marriages

5 – The Valued Self: Singleness

6 – The Vindicated Self: Divorce

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-9788-1031-8 / 1978810318
ISBN-13 978-1-9788-1031-0 / 9781978810310
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