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Being Single in India - Stories of Gender, Exclusion, and Possibility (Paperback)
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Being Single in India - Stories of Gender, Exclusion, and Possibility (Paperback)
Series: Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity, 15
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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more
at www.luminosoa.org. Today, the majority of the world's population
lives in a country with falling marriage rates, a phenomenon with
profound impacts on women, gender, and sexuality. In this
exceptionally crafted ethnography, Sarah Lamb probes the gendered
trend of single women living in India, examining what makes living
outside marriage for women increasingly possible and yet incredibly
challenging. Featuring the stories of never-married women as young
as 35 and as old as 92, the book offers a remarkable portrait of a
way of life experienced by women across class and caste divides,
from urban professionals and rural day laborers, to those who
identify as heterosexual and lesbian, to others who evaded marriage
both by choice and by circumstance. For women in India, complex
social-cultural and political-economic contexts are foundational to
their lives and decisions, and evading marriage is often an
unintended consequence of other pressing life priorities. Arguing
that never-married women are able to illuminate their society's
broader social-cultural values, Lamb offers a new and startling
look at prevailing systems of gender, sexuality, kinship, freedom,
and social belonging in India today.
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