Moving for Marriage
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-8557-7 (ISBN)
Shortlisted for the 2023 BASAS Book Prize presented by British Association for South Asian Studies
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a village in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Moving for Marriage compares the lived experiences of women in "regional" marriages (that conform to caste and community norms within a relatively short distance) with women in "cross-regional" 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.
Shruti Chaudhry is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Contextualizing Marriage in Rural North India
1. Making a Regional Marriage
2. A Compulsory Marriage? Contextualizing Cross-Regional Marriage and Bachelorhood
3. Making a Cross-Regional Marriage
Part II: Post-Marital Lived Experiences
4. Life in the Sasural
5. Husbands
6. Children and Other Women
7. Natal Kin
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Castes in Barampur
Appendix 2: Village Survey Questionnaire
Appendix 3: Details of Cross-Regional Bride and Regional Bride Informants
Appendix 4: Details of Informants for Structured Interviews
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.09.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | SUNY series, Genders in the Global South |
| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 13 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 227 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4384-8557-3 / 1438485573 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4384-8557-7 / 9781438485577 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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