Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change (Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts)

P�ter Berta (editor),Asha L. Abeyasekera (contributions by)

ISBN 10: 1978822839 / ISBN 13: 9781978822832

Edité par Rutgers University Press 2023-03-30, 2023

N° de réf. du vendeur 6666-GRD-9781978822832

Synopsis :

Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation as a result of global and other processes such as the revolution of digital technology, democratization of transnational mobility, or shifting significance of patriarchal power structures. The ethnographically informed chapters not only highlight how the gendered and intergenerational politics of agency, autonomy, choice, consent, and intimacy work in the contexts of partner choice and management of marriage, but also point out that arranged marriages are increasingly varied and they can be reshaped, reinvented, and reinterpreted flexibly in response to individual, family, religious, class, ethnic, and other desires, needs, and constraints. The authors convincingly demonstrate that a nuanced investigation of the reasons, complex dynamics, and consequences of arranged marriages offers a refreshing analytical lens that can significantly contribute to a deeper understanding of other phenomena such as globalization, modernization, and international migration as well as patriarchal value regimes, intergenerational power imbalances, and gendered subordination and vulnerability of women.

À propos de l'auteur:

PÉTER BERTA is an honorary research associate at University College London SSEES and a senior research fellow at Budapest Business School. He is the author of the award-winning monograph Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma, and the founding editor of The Politics of Marriage and Gender book series at Rutgers University Press.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition...
Éditeur : Rutgers University Press 2023-03-30
Date d'édition : 2023
Reliure : Hardcover
Etat : New