Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties (eBook, PDF)

Global Perspectives on Marriage, Crisis, and Nation
Redaktion: Celello, Kristin; Kholoussy, Hanan

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Produktbeschreibung

Since the late nineteenth century, fears that marriage is in crisis have reverberated around the world. This volume explores this phenomenon, asking why people of various races, classes, and nations frequently seem to be fretting about marriage. Each of the chapters analyzes a specific time and place during which proclamations of marriage crisis have dominated public discourse, whether in late imperial Russia, 1920s India, mid-century France, or present-day Iran. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199856756
• Artikelnr.: 44754892

Autorenporträt

Kristin Celello is Associate Professor of History at Queens College, City University of New York. She is the author of Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States (UNC Press, 2009). Hanan Kholoussy is an Associate Professor of History at The American University in Cairo. She is the author of For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2010; AUC Press, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties: Global
Perspectives on Marriage, Crisis, and Nation
* 1: Barbara Alpern Engel: Marital Choice and Marital Crisis in Late
Imperial Russia
* 2: Erica M. Windler: Marriage, Manumission, and Morality in
Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro
* 3: Nancy F. Cott: Marriage Crisis and All That Jazz
* 4: Ishita Pande: Marriage and Minority: The Indian Nation, the Muslim
Question, and the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929
* 5: Tin Tin Htun: Mixed Marriage in Colonial Burma: National Identity
and Nationhood at Risk
* 6: Elke E. Stockreiter: Materialism, Contention, and Rebellion: The
Changing Demands on Marriage in Colonial Zanzibar
* 7: Rebecca J. Pulju: Finding a Grand Amour in Marriage in Postwar
France
* 8: Ke Li and Sara L. Friedman: Wedding Marriage to the Nation-State
in Modern China: Legal Consequences for Divorce, Property, and
Women's Rights
* 9: Nwando Achebe: Woman-to-Woman, Polyandrous, and Child Marriage:
Expressions and Contestations of Marriage Rights in Colonial and
Independent Nigeria
* 10: Amy Motlagh: What Kind of Crisis? Marriage and Masculinity in
Contemporary Iranian Cinema
* 11: Jeff Kingston: Marriage and Family in Crisis in Contemporary
Japan
* 12: Imagined Crises: Assessing Evidence of Delayed Marriage and
Never-Marriage in Contemporary EgyptRania Salem