TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chaudhry, Shruti
TI  - Moving for marriage: inequalities, intimacy, and women's lives in rural North India
SN  - 9781438485577
U1  - 306.8109542 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Women's marriage - India
KW  - Case studies - Indian marriages
KW  - Regional disparities
N1  - 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


N2  - 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
ER  -