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Moving for marriage: inequalities, intimacy, and women's lives in rural North India

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: State University of New York Press 2021 New YorkDescription: xiii,299 p. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:
  • 9781438485577
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.8109542 C4M6
Summary: Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a village in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Moving for Marriage compares the lived experiences of womin 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. This book highlights the ways in which the post-marital experiences of both categories of wives in this study--their 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 distress--are shaped by factors such as caste, class/poverty, religion, and stage in the life-course. https://sunypress.edu/Books/M/Moving-for-Marriage
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Table of contents

Introduction --
Making a Regional Marriage --
A Compulsory Marriage? Contextualizing Cross-Regional Marriage and Bachelorhood --
Making a Cross-Regional Marriage --
Life in the Sasurāl --
Husbands --
Children and Other Women --
Natal Kin --
Conclusion

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a village in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Moving for Marriage compares the lived experiences of womin 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. This book highlights the ways in which the post-marital experiences of both categories of wives in this study--their 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 distress--are shaped by factors such as caste, class/poverty, religion, and stage in the life-course.

https://sunypress.edu/Books/M/Moving-for-Marriage

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