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Moving for Marriage: Inequalities, Intimacy, and Women's Lives in Rural North India

Moving for Marriage: Inequalities, Intimacy, and Women's Lives in Rural North India

Chaudhry, Shruti

Hardcover

Series: Suny Series, Genders in the Global South

General SociologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1438485573
ISBN13: 9781438485577
Publisher: St Univ Of New York Pr
Published: Oct 1 2021
Pages: 313
Weight: 1.39
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Comparative, ethnographic study of women who migrate for marriage in rural north India.

Shortlisted for the 2023 BASAS Book Prize presented by British Association for South Asian Studies

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a village in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Moving for Marriage compares the lived experiences of women 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. Indeed, Moving for Marriage 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. In focusing on this Global South context, Chaudhry makes novel arguments about the development of intimacy within marriages that are inherently unequal and even violent, thereby offering an alternative to Euro-American understandings of intimacy and women's agency.

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