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

Posted By: roxul
Date: 30 Apr 2023 11:04:32
Moving for Marriage: Inequalities, Intimacy, and Women's Lives in Rural North India

Shruti Chaudhry, "Moving for Marriage: Inequalities, Intimacy, and Women's Lives in Rural North India "
English | ISBN: 1438485581 | 2022 | 313 pages | EPUB | 2 MB

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,
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