Making the Right Choice - Narratives of Marriage in Sri Lanka

Making the Right Choice is an intimate portrait of the politics of marriage and gender narrated through the life-histories of three generations of Sinhala-Buddhist families living in urban Sri Lanka. The book demonstrates that marriage is a privileged site to investigate questions about gendered selves, gendered agency, and modern subjectivities.
 

List of contents

Series Foreword by Péter Berta
Introduction
1 – Sinhala Marriage Practices: Then and Now
2 – Making the ‘Right’ Choice                                                                                  
3 – Structuring the ‘Right’ Choice
4 – The Virtuous Self: Failed Marriages
5 – The Valued Self: Singleness
6 – The Vindicated Self: Divorce
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

ASHA L. ABEYASEKERA is a senior lecturer in the faculty of graduate studies at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka.

Product details

• Authors: Asha L Abeyasekera, Asha L. Abeyasekera
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781978810303
• ISBN: 978-1-978810-30-3
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Politics of Marriage and Gende; Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Partnership, sexuality; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories