{"product_id":"opting-out-women-messing-with-marriage-around-the-world-paperback-softback-9781978830103","title":"Opting Out; Women Messing with Marriage Around the World (Paperback \/ softback) 9781978830103","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOpting Out\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWomen Messing with Marriage Around the World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoanna Davidson (Edited by), Dinah Hannaford (Edited by), Joanna Davidson (Contributions by), Dinah Hannaford (Contributions by), Julia Pauli (Contributions by), Jacqueline Solway (Contributions by), Sarah Lamb (Contributions by), Laura C. Nelson (Contributions by), Kimberly Walters (Contributions by), Melanie A. Medeiros (Contributions by), Carla Freeman (Contributions by), Akiko Takeyama (Contributions by), Brady G'Sell (Contributions by), Carla Jones (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978830103\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 11 November 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e260 pages, 3 b\u0026amp;w images\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.8 cm, 0.064 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Provocatively and engagingly, this volume provides compelling ethnographic evidence of the changes marriage is undergoing around the world. The impact of these changes raises profound questions, not only about the future of marriage itself, but which, as these essays show, go to the heart of gender relations and their intersection with politics, economics and religion.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Janet Carsten (co-editor of Marriage in Past, Present, and Future Tense) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Grounded in superb ethnographic chapters drawn from all over the world, \u003ci\u003eOpting Out \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the diverse ways in which women exert agency in and against marriage. With fresh insight into practices that occur in every society, this collection delivers a rich and rewarding comparative examination of an astonishingly overlooked aspect of everyday life.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Daniel Jordan Smith (author of A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWomen around the world are opting out of marriage. Through nuanced ethnographic accounts of the ways that women are moving the needle on marital norms and practices, \u003ci\u003eOpting Out\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the conditions that make this widespread phenomenon possible in places where marriage has long been obligatory. Each chapter invites readers into the lives of particular women and the changing circumstances in which these lives unfold - sometimes painfully, sometimes humorously, and always unexpectedly. Taken together, the essays in this volume prompt the following questions: Why is marriage so consistently disappointing for women? When the rewards of economic stability and the social status that marriage confers are troubled, does marriage offer women anything compelling at all? Across diverse geographic contexts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, this book offers sensitive and powerful portrayals of women as they escape or reshape marriage into a more rewarding arrangement.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSeries Foreword by PÉ\u003cbr\u003eter Berta\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Messing with Marriage by Joanna Davidson and Dinah Hannaford\u003cbr\u003ePart I. Never Married\u003cbr\u003e1. Almost Married: Two Generations of Single Mothers in Namibia by Julia Pauli\u003cbr\u003e2. Single in Botswana by Jacqueline Solway\u003cbr\u003e3.  Freedom to Choose? Singlehood, Gender, and Sexuality in India by Sarah Lamb\u003cbr\u003e4. Single Women’\u003cbr\u003es Invisibility in South Korea’\u003cbr\u003es First Decades by Laura C. Nelson\u003cbr\u003ePart II. Outside of Marriage\u003cbr\u003e5. Pathivratha Precarity: Sex Work on the Other Side of Marriage in South India by Kimberly Walters\u003cbr\u003e6. Respectability \u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e Black Brazilian Women’\u003cbr\u003es Decisions to ‘\u003cbr\u003eOpt Out’\u003cbr\u003e of Remarriage by Melanie Medeiros\u003cbr\u003e7. The Upward Mobility of Matrifocality and the Enigma of Bajan Marriage by Carla Freeman\u003cbr\u003e8. Messing with Remarriage: The Problem of Widows in Guinea-Bissau by Joanna Davidson\u003cbr\u003ePart III. Within Marriage\u003cbr\u003e9. Extramarital Intimacy: Juggling Femininity, Marriage, and Commercial Sex in Contemporary Japan by Akiko Takeyama\u003cbr\u003e10. “\u003cbr\u003eWhat’\u003cbr\u003es Wrong with These Mens?”\u003cbr\u003e: Reworking relationships and finding foreign love in the new South Africa by Brady G’\u003cbr\u003eSell\u003cbr\u003e11. The Appeal of Absent Husbands in Contemporary Senegal by Dinah Hannaford\u003cbr\u003e12. “\u003cbr\u003eNot a normal wife”\u003cbr\u003e: Marrying Activism and Aberrance in Indonesia by Carla Jones\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52735593513240,"sku":"9781978830103","price":31.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/opting-out-women-messing-with-marriage-around-the-world-paperback-softback-9781978830103","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}