Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage Around the World

Book Overview

Women around the world are opting out of marriage. Through nuanced ethnographic accounts of the ways that women are moving the needle on marital norms and practices, Opting Out reveals the conditions that make this widespread phenomenon possible in places where marriage has long been obligatory. Each chapter invites readers into the lives of particular women and the changing circumstances in which these lives unfold - sometimes painfully, sometimes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978830106
• ISBN13: 9781978830103
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher