Making the Right Choice: Narratives of Marriage in Sri Lanka
(Part of the The Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts Series)
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Making the Right Choice unravels the entangled relationship between marriage, morality, and the desire for modernity as it plays out in the context of middle-class status concerns and aspirations for upward social mobility within the Sinhala-Buddhist community in urban Sri Lanka. By focusing on individual life-histories spanning three generations, the book illuminates how narratives about a gendered self and narratives about modernity are mutually...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:197881030X
ISBN13:9781978810303
Release Date:March 2021
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Length:228 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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