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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Table of Contents:
- 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