Opting Out

Women Messing with Marriage Around the World
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-9788-3010-3
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts

Women around the world are opting out of marriage. Through nuanced ethnographic accounts of the ways that women are moving the needle on marital norms and practices, Opting Out reveals the conditions that make this widespread phenomenon possible in places where marriage has long been obligatory. Each chapter invites readers into the lives of particular women and the changing circumstances in which these lives unfold - sometimes painfully, sometimes humorously, and always unexpectedly. Taken together, the essays in this volume prompt the following questions: Why is marriage so consistently disappointing for women? When the rewards of economic stability and the social status that marriage confers are troubled, does marriage offer women anything compelling at all? Across diverse geographic contexts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, this book offers sensitive and powerful portrayals of women as they escape or reshape marriage into a more rewarding arrangement.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davidson, Joanna

Hannaford, Dinah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Joanna Davidson is an associate professor of anthropology at Boston University. She is the author of Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa.

Dinah Hannaford is an associate professor of international studies at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Marriage Without Borders: Transnational Spouses in Neoliberal Senegal.