Learning to Love - Arranged Marriages and the British Indian Diaspora (Hardcover)

Learning to Love moves beyond the media and policy stereotypes that conflate arranged marriages with forced marriages. Using in-depth interviews and participant observations, this book assembles a rich and diverse array of everyday marriage narratives and trajectories and highlights how considerations of romantic love are woven into traditional arranged marriage practices. It shows that far from being a homogeneous tradition, arranged marriages involve a variety of different matchmaking practices where each family tailors its own cut-and-paste version of British-Indian arranged marriages to suit modern identities and ambitions. Pande argues that instead of being wedded to traditions, people in the British-Indian diaspora have skillfully adapted and negotiated arranged marriage cultural norms to carve out an identity narrative that portrays them as "modern and progressive migrants"-ones who are changing with the times and cultivating transnational forms of belonging.  

General

Imprint:	Rutgers University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
Release date:	March 2021
Authors:	Raksha Pande
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	168
ISBN-13:	978-0-8135-9964-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
LSN:	0-8135-9964-4
Barcode:	9780813599649

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