Courting Desire

Rama Srinivasan

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Inquiries into marital patterns can serve as an effective lens to analyze social structures and material cultures not only on the question of sexualit... Lees meer

Courting Desire

Rama Srinivasan

• Paperback | Engels | Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Inquiries into marital patterns can serve as an effective lens to analyze social structures and material cultures not only on the question of sexualit... Lees meer

Opting Out

• Paperback | Engels | Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• 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... Lees meer

Redefining Multicultural Families in South Korea

• Paperback | Engels | Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Redefining Multicultural Families in South Korea provides an in-depth look at the lives of families in Korea that include immigrants. Ten original cha... Lees meer

Marriage and Health

• Paperback | Engels | Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Studies have shown that married couples have better mental and physical health than unmarried people. Leading scholars and policy makers propose that ... Lees meer

Between Care and Criminality

Helena Zeweri

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Between Care and Criminality examines social welfare's encounter with migration and marriage in a period of intensified border control in Melbourne, A... Lees meer

Chinese Marriages in Transition

Xiaoling Shu, Jingjing Chen

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Outdated models of Chinese gender roles, marriage, and family transitions portray these changes as streamlined and unidirectional, from traditional to... Lees meer

Intimate Connections

Anna-Maria Walter

• Paperback | Engels | Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Intimate Connections dissects ideas, feelings, and practices around love, marriage, and respectability in the remote high mountains of Gilgit-Baltista... Lees meer

Honor and the Political Economy of Marriage

Joanne Payton

• Paperback | Engels | Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• 'Honor' is used as a justification for violence perpetrated against women and girls considered to have violated social taboos related to sexual behavi... Lees meer

Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century

• Paperback | Engels | Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century shows the wide range of Muslim experiences in marital disputes and in seeking Islamic divorces. For Muslims, havin... Lees meer

Arranged Marriage

• Paperback | Engels | Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation as a re... Lees meer

Learning to Love

Raksha Pande

• Paperback | Engels | Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Learning to Love moves beyond the media and policy stereotypes that conflate arranged marriages with forced marriages. Using in-depth interviews and p... Lees meer

Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration

• Hardcover | Engels | Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• This multidisciplinary collection investigates the ways in which marriage and partner migration processes have become the object of state scrutiny, an... Lees meer

Making the Right Choice

Asha L Abeyasekera

• Paperback | Engels | Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Making the Right Choice unravels the entangled relationship between marriage, morality, and the desire for modernity as it plays out in the context of... Lees meer

Global Dynamics of Shi'a Marriages

• Paperback | Engels | Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Muslim marriages have been the focus of considerable public debate in Europe and beyond, in Muslim-majority countries as well as in settings where Mus... Lees meer

Chinese Marriages in Transition

Xiaoling Shu, Jingjing Chen

• Paperback | Engels | Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Outdated models of Chinese gender roles, marriage, and family transitions portray these changes as streamlined and unidirectional, from traditional to... Lees meer

Intimate Geopolitics

Sara Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Winner of the 2021 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award from the American Association of Geographers​ 2021 Foreword Indies Finalist - Politics and S... Lees meer

Mediating the Uprising

Rebecca Joubin

• Paperback | Engels | Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Mediating the Uprising: Narratives of Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama shows how gender and marriage metaphors inform post-uprising Syri... Lees meer

Transnational Marriage and Partner Migration

• Paperback | Engels | Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• This multidisciplinary collection investigates the ways in which marriage and partner migration processes have become the object of state scrutiny, an... Lees meer

Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration

Natasha Carver

• Paperback | Engels | Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Winner of the 2022 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize​ This ethical and poetic ethnography analyses the upheavals to gender roles and marital relationsh... Lees meer

Between Care and Criminality

Helena Zeweri

• Paperback | Engels | Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
• Between Care and Criminality examines social welfare's encounter with migration and marriage in a period of intensified border control in Melbourne, A... Lees meer