Why would I be married here? : marriage migration and dispossession in neoliberal India
Reena Kukreja
Bok · Engelsk · 2022
| Omfang | xix, 284 sider : kart
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| Opplysninger | Introduction : Few Wives Available Locally -- A Society in Flux -- Some Men Are More Ineligible Than Others -- The Lament of the Poor : Distant Marriages of Loved Ones -- Trafficked? Or Married? Wherein Lies the Truth? -- The Stain of the Internal Other -- Docile Brides, Efficient Workers : Undertaking Everyday Negotiations and Resistances -- Conclusion : What Lies Ahead : Continued Dispossession or Reclaiming Rights? -- Appendix: List of interviewees directly quoted -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index.. - "The book examines cross-region marriage migration in India that transgresses traditional norms of caste, religion, and ethnicity in marriage-making. An intimate account of the lived experience of migrant Hindu and Muslim brides in rural North India, it foregrounds the intersections of patriarchy, caste, religious fundamentalism, and neoliberal capitalism in shaping their everyday reality"--
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| ISBN | 9781501762550. - 9781501764134
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