{"product_id":"9781978810310-making-the-right-choice","title":"Making the Right Choice","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNarratives of Marriage in Sri Lanka\u003cbr\u003eUnravels the entangled relationship between marriage, morality, and the desire for modernity as it plays out in the context of middle-class status concerns and aspirations for upward social mobility within the Sinhala-Buddhist community in urban Sri Lanka.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking the Right Choice\u003c\/i\u003e unravels the entangled relationship between marriage, morality, and the desire for modernity as it plays out in the context of middle-class status concerns and aspirations for upward social mobility within the Sinhala-Buddhist community in urban Sri Lanka. By focusing on individual life-histories spanning three generations, the book illuminates how narratives about a gendered self and narratives about modernity are mutually constituted and intrinsically tied to notions of agency. The book uncovers how \"becoming modern\" in urban Sri Lanka, rather than causing inter-generational conflict, is a collective aspiration realized through the efforts of bringing up educated and independent women capable of making \"right\" choices. The consequence of this collective investment is a feminist conundrum: agency does not denote the right to choose, but the duty to make the \"right\" choice; hence agency is experienced not as a sense of \"freedom,\" but rather as a burden of responsibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56345119326582,"sku":"9781978810310","price":129.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_37625749_7ad8992d-434c-440a-9b09-bf9c0b845901.jpg?v=1762224129","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781978810310-making-the-right-choice","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}