Opting Out

Opting Out

Women Messing with Marriage around the World

Hannaford, Dinah; Hannaford, Dinah; Davidson, Joanna; Pauli, Julia; Solway, Jacqueline; Davidson, Joanna; Walters, Kimberly; Medeiros, Melanie A.; Lamb, Sarah; Nelson, Laura C.

Rutgers University Press

11/2022

260

Dura

Inglês

9781978830110

15 a 20 dias

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Series Foreword by Peter Berta
Introduction: Messing with Marriage by Joanna Davidson and Dinah Hannaford
Part I. Never Married
1. Almost Married: Two Generations of Single Mothers in Namibia by Julia Pauli
2. Single in Botswana by Jacqueline Solway
3. Freedom to Choose? Singlehood, Gender, and Sexuality in India by Sarah Lamb
4. Single Women's Invisibility in South Korea's First Decades by Laura C. Nelson
Part II. Outside of Marriage
5. Pathivratha Precarity: Sex Work on the Other Side of Marriage in South India by Kimberly Walters
6. Respectability & Black Brazilian Women's Decisions to 'Opt Out' of Remarriage by Melanie Medeiros
7. The Upward Mobility of Matrifocality and the Enigma of Bajan Marriage by Carla Freeman
8. Messing with Remarriage: The Problem of Widows in Guinea-Bissau by Joanna Davidson
Part III. Within Marriage
9. Extramarital Intimacy: Juggling Femininity, Marriage, and Commercial Sex in Contemporary Japan by Akiko Takeyama
10. "What's Wrong with These Mens?": Reworking relationships and finding foreign love in the new South Africa by Brady G'Sell
11. The Appeal of Absent Husbands in Contemporary Senegal by Dinah Hannaford
12. "Not a normal wife": Marrying Activism and Aberrance in Indonesia by Carla Jones
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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marriage; women's avoidance; women's rights; rejection; rejection of marriage; ethnographic perspective; Japanese marriage law; Japanese marriage; marriage lawyer; divorce; divorce proceedings; female expectation; female frustration; black females; single motherhood; single ladies; marriage proposals; marriage rejection; Namibia; Botswana; African marriage law; South Korea; Extramarital intimacy