Moving for Marriage : Inequalities, Intimacy, and Women's Lives in Rural North India
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
SUNY series, Genders in the Global South
ISBN-10
1438485573
ISBN-13
9781438485577
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Imprint
State University of New York Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 1st, 2021
Print length
313 Pages
Weight
549 grams
Product Classification:
Regional studiesAsian historyRural communitiesGender studies, gender groupsGender studies: women
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Comparative, ethnographic study of women who migrate for marriage in rural north India.
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 studytheir 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 distressare 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.
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 studytheir 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 distressare 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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