Chaudhry Moving for Marriage

Inequalities, Intimacy, and Women's Lives in Rural North India
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8559-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 313 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Genders in the Global South

Comparative, ethnographic study of women who migrate for marriage in rural north India.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chaudhry, Shruti

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Shruti Chaudhry is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.