Shruti Chaudhry

Moving for Marriage (eBook, ePUB)

Inequalities, Intimacy, and Women's Lives in Rural North India

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Shortlisted for the 2023 BASAS Book Prize presented by British Association for South Asian Studies

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a village in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Moving for Marriage compares the lived experiences of women in "regional" marriages (that conform to caste and community norms within a relatively short distance) with women in "cross-regional" marriages (that traverse caste, linguistic, and state boundaries and entail long-distance migration within India). By demonstrating how geographic distance and regional origins make a difference in these women's experiences, Shruti Chaudhry challenges stereotypes and moral panics about cross-regional brides who are brought from far away. Indeed, Moving for Marriage highlights the ways in which the post-marital experiences of both categories of wives in this study-their work and social relationships, their sexual lives and childbearing decisions, and their ability to access support in everyday contexts and in the event of marital distress-are shaped by factors such as caste, class/poverty, religion, and stage in the life-course. In focusing on this Global South context, Chaudhry makes novel arguments about the development of intimacy within marriages that are inherently unequal and even violent, thereby offering an alternative to Euro-American understandings of intimacy and women's agency.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 313
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781438485591
• Artikelnr.: 62599224

Autorenporträt

Shruti Chaudhry is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.