Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity #15: Being Single in India

Stories of Gender, Exclusion, and Possibility

Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity #15: Being Single in India
Sarah Lamb
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14 Jun 2022 US
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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www. luminosoa. org. Today, the majority of the world' s population lives in a country with falling marriage rates, a phenomenon with profound impacts on women, gender, and sexuality. In this exceptionally crafted ethnography, Sarah Lamb probes the gendered trend of single living in India, examining what makes living outside marriage for women increasingly possible and yet incredibly challenging. Featuring the stories of never-married women as young as 35 and as old as 92, the book offers a remarkable portrait of a way of life experienced by women across class and caste divides, from urban professionals and rural day laborers, to those who identify as heterosexual and lesbian, to others who evaded marriage both by choice and by circumstance. For women in India, complex social-cultural and political-economic contexts are foundational to their lives and decisions, and evading marriage is often an unintended consequence of other pressing life priorities. Arguing that never-married women are able to illuminate their society' s broader social-cultural values, Lamb offers a new and startling look at prevailing systems of gender, sexuality, kinship, freedom, and social belonging in India today.

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Being Single in India: Stories of Gender, Exclusion, and Possibility

Sarah Lamb is Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology and Women' s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University. She is also the author of White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India.
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ISBN-13: 9780520389427
Published: 14 Jun 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 408g
Pages: 236

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