Making the Right Choice : : Narratives of Marriage in Sri Lanka / / Asha L. Abeyasekera.
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 indi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Series Foreword -- |t Introduction -- |t 1. Sinhala Marriage: Then and Now -- |t 2. Making the “Right” Choice -- |t 3. Structuring the “Right” Choice -- |t 4. The Virtuous Self: Failed Marriages -- |t 5. The Valued Self: Singleness -- |t 6. The Vindicated Self: Divorce -- |t Conclusion -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Notes -- |t References -- |t Index |
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| 520 | |a 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. | ||
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