Intimate Connections dissects ideas, feelings, and practices around
love, marriage, and respectability in the remote high mountains of
Gilgit-Baltistan in northern Pakistan. It offers insightful
perspectives from the emotional lives of Shia women and their
active engagement with their husbands. These gender relations are
shaped by countless factors, including embodied values of modesty
and honor, vernacular fairy tales and Bollywood movies, Islamic
revivalism and development initiatives. In particular, the advent
of media and communication technologies has left a mark on
(pre)marital relations in both South Asia and the wider Muslim
world. Juxtaposing different understandings of ‘love’ reveals
rich and manifold worlds of courtship, elopements, family dynamics,
and more or less affectionate matches that are nowadays often
initiated through SMS. Deep ethnographic accounts trace the
relationships between young couples to show how Muslim women in a
globalized world dynamically frame and negotiate circumstances in
their lives.
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