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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Abeyasekera, Asha L., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Making the Right Choice : Narratives of Marriage in Sri Lanka / Asha L. Abeyasekera. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource (252 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Sinhala Marriage: Then and Now -- 2. Making the “Right” Choice -- 3. Structuring the “Right” Choice -- 4. The Virtuous Self: Failed Marriages -- 5. The Valued Self: Singleness -- 6. The Vindicated Self: Divorce -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023) Arranged marriage Sri Lanka. Marriage Sri Lanka. Social change Sri Lanka. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh Marriage, gender, Sinhala-Buddhist, Sri Lanka, modern subjectivities, politics of marriage, gendered selves, Sinhala, divorce, failed marriages, Abeyasekera, kinship, family, gender identity, modernity, middle-class, feminist, Buddhist, morality, social mobility, intergenerational conflict, modern, becoming modern, Kimberly, Guinta, love, global, desire, North India, social structures, culture, sexuality, material culture, political economy, marriage in North India, sexual consent, consensual relationships, legal subjectivity, marital patterns, arranged marriages, anthropology, Indian state, feminism, legal anthropology, aspiration. Berta, Péter, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Sociology 2021 English 9783110754186 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Sociology 2021 9783110753967 ZDB-23-DSL Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110739138 https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978810341 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978810341 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781978810341/original |
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