Opting Out - Women Messing with Marriage around the World (Paperback)

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. 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. Taken together, the essays in this volume prompt the following questions: Why is marriage so consistently disappointing for women? When the rewards of economic stability and the social status that marriage confers are troubled, does marriage offer women anything compelling at all? Across diverse geographic contexts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, this book offers sensitive and powerful portrayals of women as they escape or reshape marriage into a more rewarding arrangement.

General

Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
Release date:	November 2022
Editors:	Joanna Davidson • Dinah Hannaford
Contributors:	Joanna Davidson • Dinah Hannaford • Julia Pauli • Jacqueline Solway • Sarah Lamb • Laura C Nelson • Kimberly Walters • Melanie A Medeiros
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	260
ISBN-13:	978-1-978830-10-3
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-978830-10-6
Barcode:	9781978830103

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