Arranged Marriage

The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change
Shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation as a result of global and other processes such as the revolution of digital technology, democratization of transnational mobility, or shifting significance of patriarchal power structures.
Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation as a result of global and other processes such as the revolution of digital technology, democratization of transnational mobility, or shifting significance of patriarchal power structures. The ethnographically informed chapters not only highlight how the gendered and intergenerational politics of agency, autonomy, choice, consent, and intimacy work in the contexts of partner choice and management of marriage, but also point out that arranged marriages are increasingly varied and they can be reshaped, reinvented, and reinterpreted flexibly in response to individual, family, religious, class, ethnic, and other desires, needs, and constraints. The authors convincingly demonstrate that a nuanced investigation of the reasons, complex dynamics, and consequences of arranged marriages offers a refreshing analytical lens that can significantly contribute to a deeper understanding of other phenomena such as globalization, modernization, and international migration as well as patriarchal value regimes, intergenerational power imbalances, and gendered subordination and vulnerability of women.

Contributor: Péter Berta (Edited by), Raksha Pande (Contributions by), Christina Julios (Contributions by), Pan Wang (Contributions by), Helena Zeweri (Contributions by), Schirin Vahle (Contributions by), Marian Aguiar (Contributions by), Asha L. Abeyasekera (Contributions by), Noorfarah Merali (Contributions by), Shalini Grover (Contributions by), Péter Berta (Contributions by), Serena Petrella (Contributions by), Yafa Shanneik (Contributions by), Sima Zalcberg Block (Contributions by)

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