Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage Around the World Davidson Joanna
Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage Around the World Davidson Joanna Women around the world are opting out of marriage. Each chapter invites readers into the lives of particular women and the…
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Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage Around the World Davidson Joanna
Women around the world are opting out of marriage. Each chapter invites readers into the lives of particular women and the changing circumstances in which these lives unfold - sometimes painfully, sometimes humorously, and always unexpectedly. 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.
When the rewards of economic stability and the social status that marriage confers are troubled, does marriage offer women anything compelling at all? Taken together, the essays in this volume prompt the following questions: Why is marriage so consistently disappointing for women? Across diverse geographic contexts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, this book offers sensitive and powerful
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