Description |
1 online resource |
Series |
The politics of marriage and gender: global issues in local contexts |
Contents |
The politics of marriage and migration in postcolonial Britain -- Becoming modern and British: enacting citizenship through arranged marriages -- Continuing traditions as a matter of arrangement -- Becoming a "suitable boy" and a "good girl" -- Learning to love -- The ties that bind: marriage, belonging, and identity |
Summary |
"Learning to Love moves beyond the media and policy stereotypes that conflate arranged marriages with forced marriages. Using in-depth interviews and participant observations, this book assembles a rich and diverse array of everyday marriage narratives and trajectories and highlights how considerations of romantic love are woven into traditional arranged marriage practices. It shows that far from being a homogeneous tradition, arranged marriages involve a variety of different matchmaking practices where each family tailors its own cut-and-paste version of British-Indian arranged marriages to suit modern identities and ambitions. Pande argues that instead of being wedded to traditions, people in the British-Indian diaspora have skillfully adapted and negotiated arranged marriage cultural norms to carve out an identity narrative that portrays them as "modern and progressive migrants"-ones who are changing with the times and cultivating transnational forms of belonging"-- Provided by publisher |
Subject |
Arranged marriage -- Great Britain
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East Indians -- Marriage customs and rites -- Great Britain
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
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Arranged marriage
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Great Britain
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780813599656 |
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0813599652 |
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