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Making the Right Choice : Narratives of Marriage in Sri Lanka / Asha L. Abeyasekera.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local ContextsPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (252 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781978810341
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.81095493 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Sinhala Marriage: Then and Now -- 2. Making the “Right” Choice -- 3. Structuring the “Right” Choice -- 4. The Virtuous Self: Failed Marriages -- 5. The Valued Self: Singleness -- 6. The Vindicated Self: Divorce -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Sinhala Marriage: Then and Now -- 2. Making the “Right” Choice -- 3. Structuring the “Right” Choice -- 4. The Virtuous Self: Failed Marriages -- 5. The Valued Self: Singleness -- 6. The Vindicated Self: Divorce -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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