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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.
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