Arranged Marriage : : The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change /

Arranged Marriage : : The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change / / ed. by Péter Berta.

Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation as a result of global and other processes such as the revolution of digital technology, democratization of transnational mobility, or shifting significance o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
MitwirkendeR:
Abeyasekera, Asha L.,
Aguiar, Marian,
Berta, Péter,
Block, Sima Zalcberg,
Grover, Shalini,
Julios, Christina,
Merali, Noorfarah,
Pande, Raksha,
Petrella, Serena,
Shanneik, Yafa,
Ternikar, Farha,
Vahle, Schirin,
Wang, Pan,
Zalcberg Block, Sima,
Zeweri, Helena,
HerausgeberIn:
Berta, Péter,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (254 p.) :; 3 color illustrations, 4 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Series Foreword
  • Introduction: Conceptualizing Arranged Marriage – From Binary Oppositions to Hybridity, Processuality, and Contextual Dependency
  • Part I: Regulating Arranged Marriage
  • 1. Nothing “Celestial” about It: Trafficking Underage Brides between Canada and the United States for the Purposes of Arranged Marriage
  • 2. From Family Safety Net to the World Wide Web of Immigration Fraudsters: The Evolution of Arranged Marriages among South Asian Canadians
  • Part II: (Re)conceptualizing Arranged Marriage
  • 3. Arranged Marriage as a Process: From Premarital Normalization of Arranged Marriage to Arranged Divorce and Arranged Remarriage
  • 4. Configuring Arranged Marriage as a Foil to Forced Marriage in Multicultural Australia
  • 5. Forced Marriage and “Honor”-Based Violence in Britain: Issues, Debates, and the Question of Consent
  • Part III: Revitalizing and Reinventing Arranged Marriage
  • 6 Revisiting Transnational Arranged Marriages among Syrian Refugees in Germany: A Relational Approach
  • 7. From Patriarchal Call to Digital Hunt: Transforming “Arranged Marriages” in China
  • Part IV: Modernizing Arranged Marriage
  • 8. Family-Arranged Marriages in Globalizing India: Shifting Scripts of Desire, Infidelity, and Emotional Compatibility
  • 9. Progressive Traditions, Repressive Victorians, and the Modern Present: Arranged Marriage and Gender in Sri Lanka
  • 10. “I Wanted to Choose for Myself”: Changing Marriage Patterns in the Ultra-Orthodox Society in Israel
  • Part V: Diasporizing Arranged Marriage
  • 11. Wedded to Tradition? Continuity and Change in Arranged Marriage Practices among British Indians
  • 12. The Changing Face of Arranged Marriage in the South Asian Diaspora in Chicago
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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