Katherine Twamley

Love, Marriage and Intimacy among Gujarati Indians

A Suitable Match

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book compares understandings and experiences of love and intimacy of one distinct cultural group - Gujarati Indians - born and brought up in two different countries. In a rapidly globalizing world, this comparative ethnographic study explores how the context in which we are brought up shapes our most intimate attachments and family lives.

Produktdetails

• Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-45148-7
• 1st ed.
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 279g
• ISBN-13: 9781349451487
• ISBN-10: 1349451487
• Artikelnr.: 45005546

Autorenporträt

Katherine Twamley is John Adams Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Unit in the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Interactions in the 'Field' 3. Parental Authority, Youth Autonomy and Marital Decisions 4. Pathways to Marriage 5. Love 6. Gender 7. Conclusions Appendix 1. Tables of Participants Appendix 2. Data Analysis Procedures Appendix 3. Participants' Ranking of Traits Appendix 4. Matrimonial and Dating Agency Materials

Rezensionen

Shortlisted for the BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize, 2015