Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery

Don't Marry Me to a Plowman!

Women's Everyday Lives in Rural North India

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores complex interplay between the power of social structures to constrain individuals and the ways women negotiate the constraints to carve out places for themselves. It offers life histories of Hindu and Muslim women to present a variety of class positions and domestic circumstances.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780367315436
• ISBN-10: 0367315432
• Artikelnr.: 57733868

Autorenporträt

Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery both teach in the Sociology Department at the University of Edinburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 Queen Today in a Red Sari!
2 Just Because I Was Angry
3 She's Brought Plenty of Wealth
4 A Girl Seems Burdensome to Both Her Parents
5 Leaving Her Father's House
6 Who Would There Be to Sit with Our Boy?
7 No One of Your Own Will Be There
8 I've Become Shameless Because of the Children
9 The Daughter
in
Law's Era
10 Love and Peace in My Mother's House
11 Should I Become a Pauper?
12 Toasted on One Side
13 Why Have You Married Me So Distantly?
14 If My Uncle Saw the Situation I'm in Now
15 A Woman Should Die Before Her Husband
16 Allah Gives Both Boys and Girls