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Since the late nineteenth century, fears that marriage is in crisis have reverberated around the world. Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties explores this phenomenon, asking why people of various races, classes, and nations frequently seem to be fretting about marriage. Each of the twelve chapters analyzes a specific time and place during which proclamations of marriage crisis have dominated public discourse, whether in 1920s India, mid-century France, or present-day Iran. While each nation has had its own reasons for escalating anxieties over marriage and the family, common themes emerge in how people have understood and debated crises in marriage. Collectively, the chapters reveal how diverse individuals have deployed the institution of marriage to talk not only about intimate relationships, but also to understand the nation, its problems, and various socioeconomic and political transformations. The volume reveals critical insights and showcases original research across interdisciplinary and national boundaries, making a groundbreaking contribution to current scholarship on marriage, family, nationalism, gender, and the law.
For many Egyptians in the early twentieth century, the biggest
national problem was not British domination or the Great Depression
but a "marriage crisis" heralded in the press as a devastating rise
in the number of middle-class men refraining from marriage. Voicing
anxieties over a presumed increase in bachelorhood, Egyptians also
used the failings of Egyptian marriage to criticize British rule,
unemployment, the disintegration of female seclusion, the influx of
women into schools, middle-class materialism, and Islamic laws they
deemed incompatible with modernity.
Since the late nineteenth century, fears that marriage is in crisis have reverberated around the world. Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties explores this phenomenon, asking why people of various races, classes, and nations frequently seem to be fretting about marriage. Each of the twelve chapters analyzes a specific time and place during which proclamations of marriage crisis have dominated public discourse, whether in 1920s India, mid-century France, or present-day Iran. While each nation has had its own reasons for escalating anxieties over marriage and the family, common themes emerge in how people have understood and debated crises in marriage. Collectively, the chapters reveal how diverse individuals have deployed the institution of marriage to talk not only about intimate relationships, but also to understand the nation, its problems, and various socioeconomic and political transformations. The volume reveals critical insights and showcases original research across interdisciplinary and national boundaries, making a groundbreaking contribution to current scholarship on marriage, family, nationalism, gender, and the law.
For many Egyptians in the early twentieth century, the biggest
national problem was not British domination or the Great Depression
but a "marriage crisis" heralded in the press as a devastating rise
in the number of middle-class men refraining from marriage. Voicing
anxieties over a presumed increase in bachelorhood, Egyptians also
used the failings of Egyptian marriage to criticize British rule,
unemployment, the disintegration of female seclusion, the influx of
women into schools, middle-class materialism, and Islamic laws they
deemed incompatible with modernity.
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