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Arranging marriage : conjugal agency in the South Asian diaspora / Marian Aguiar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aguiar, Marian, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arranged marriage--South Asia.
- Arranged marriage.
- Arranged marriage--Great Britain.
- Arranged marriage--United States.
- Arranged marriage--Canada.
- South Asians--Great Britain.
- South Asians.
- Great Britain.
- South Asians--United States.
- United States.
- South Asians--Canada.
- Canada.
- South Asia.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 260 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- Arranged marriage is an institution of global fascination-an object of curiosity, revulsion, outrage, and even envy. Marian Aguiar provides the first sustained analysis of arranged marriage as a transnational cultural phenomenon, revealing how its meaning has been continuously reinvented within the South Asian diaspora of Britain, the United States, and Canada. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Discursive contexts
- The subject of agency
- "Forced marriage" and a culture of consent
- Britain: the politics of belonging
- The United States and Canada: individual freedom and community
- Regenerating tradition through transnational popular culture
- Conclusion: a cultural studies approach.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Aguiar, Marian. Arranging marriage.
- ISBN:
- 9780816689477
- 0816689474
- 9780816689484
- 0816689482
- OCLC:
- 972330985
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