Asha L Abeyasekera

Making the Right Choice

Narratives of Marriage in Sri Lanka

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Produktbeschreibung

Making the Right Choice is an intimate portrait of the politics of marriage and gender narrated through the life-histories of three generations of Sinhala-Buddhist families living in urban Sri Lanka. The book demonstrates that marriage is a privileged site to investigate questions about gendered selves, gendered agency, and modern subjectivities.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978810310
• ISBN-10: 1978810318
• Artikelnr.: 59999351

Autorenporträt

ASHA L. ABEYASEKERA is a senior lecturer in the faculty of graduate studies at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword by Péter Berta
Introduction
1 – Sinhala Marriage Practices: Then and Now
2 – Making the ‘Right’
Choice                                                                                  
3 – Structuring the ‘Right’ Choice
4 – The Virtuous Self: Failed Marriages
5 – The Valued Self: Singleness
6 – The Vindicated Self: Divorce
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index