Making the Right Choice : Narratives of Marriage in Sri Lanka Hardback
by Asha L. Abeyasekera
Part of 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 constituted and intrinsically tied to notions of agency.
The book uncovers how "becoming modern" in urban Sri Lanka, rather than causing inter-generational conflict, is a collective aspiration realized through the efforts of bringing up educated and independent women capable of making "right" choices.
The consequence of this collective investment is a feminist conundrum: agency does not denote the right to choose, but the duty to make the "right" choice; hence agency is experienced not as a sense of "freedom," but rather as a burden of responsibility.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:228 pages
- Publisher:Rutgers University Press
- Publication Date:12/03/2021
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- ISBN:9781978810310
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:228 pages
- Publisher:Rutgers University Press
- Publication Date:12/03/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781978810310