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Making the Right Choice - Narratives of Marriage in Sri Lanka

English · Hardback

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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 Hardback
Released 31.03.2021
 
EAN 9781978810310
ISBN 978-1-978810-31-0
No. of pages 228
Series Politics of Marriage and Gende
Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
Subjects Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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