Arranged Marriage
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Arranged Marriage

The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change

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eBook - ePub

Arranged Marriage

The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change

About this book

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 of patriarchal power structures. The ethnographically informed chapters not only highlight how the gendered and intergenerational politics of agency, autonomy, choice, consent, and intimacy work in the contexts of partner choice and management of marriage, but also point out that arranged marriages are increasingly varied and they can be reshaped, reinvented, and reinterpreted flexibly in response to individual, family, religious, class, ethnic, and other desires, needs, and constraints. The authors convincingly demonstrate that a nuanced investigation of the reasons, complex dynamics, and consequences of arranged marriages offers a refreshing analytical lens that can significantly contribute to a deeper understanding of other phenomena such as globalization, modernization, and international migration as well as patriarchal value regimes, intergenerational power imbalances, and gendered subordination and vulnerability of women. 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Advanced Praise for Arranged Marriage
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Series Foreword
  8. Introduction: Conceptualizing Arranged Marriage – From Binary Oppositions to Hybridity, Processuality, and Contextual Dependency
  9. Part One: Regulating Arranged Marriage
  10. Part Two: (Re)conceptualizing Arranged Marriage
  11. Part Three: Revitalizing and Reinventing Arranged Marriage
  12. Part Four: Modernizing Arranged Marriage
  13. Part Five: Diasporizing Arranged Marriage
  14. Afterword
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Notes on Contributors
  17. Index
  18. Series List