Opting Out : : Women Messing with Marriage around the World /

Opting Out : : Women Messing with Marriage around the World / / ed. by Dinah Hannaford, Joanna Davidson.

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. Eac...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
MitwirkendeR:
Berta, Péter,
Davidson, Joanna,
Freeman, Carla,
G'Sell, Brady,
G’Sell, Brady,
Hannaford, Dinah,
Jones, Carla,
Lamb, Sarah,
Medeiros, Melanie A.,
Nelson, Laura C.,
Pauli, Julia,
Solway, Jacqueline,
Takeyama, Akiko,
Walters, Kimberly,
HerausgeberIn:
Davidson, Joanna,
Hannaford, Dinah,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2022]
©2023
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (260 p.) :; 3 b&w images
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Series Foreword
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE. Never Married
  • 1. Almost Married
  • 2. Single in Botswana
  • 3. Freedom to Choose?
  • 4. Single Women’s Invisibility in South Korea’s First Decades
  • PART TWO. Outside of Marriage
  • 5. Pathivratha Precarity
  • 6. Respectability and Black Brazilian Women’s Decisions to “Opt Out” of Remarriage
  • 7. The Upward Mobility of Matrifocality and the Enigma of Bajan Marriage
  • 8. Messing with Remarriage
  • PART THREE. Within Marriage
  • 9. Extramarital Intimacy
  • 10. “What’s Wrong with These Mens?”
  • 11. The Appeal of Absent Husbands in Contemporary Senegal
  • 12. “Not a Normal Wife”
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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