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    Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage around the World
    Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage around the World
    Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage around the World
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    Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage around the World

    By Dinah Hannaford, Julia Pauli, Jacqueline Solway and

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    Women 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, Opting Out 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRutgers University Press
    Release dateNov 11, 2022
    ISBN9781978830127
    Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage around the World
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    Julia Pauli

    Julia Pauli ist Professorin am Institut für Ethnologie der Universität Hamburg.

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