Arranged Marriage shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation; how the gendered and intergenerational politics of agency, consent, and choice work in the contexts of partner choice and management of marriage; and how this type of marriage can be reshaped, reinvented, and reinterpreted flexibly in response to individual, family, religious, class, ethnic and other desires, needs, and constraints.
Arranged Marriage shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation; how the gendered and intergenerational politics of agency, consent, and choice work in the contexts of partner choice and management of marriage; and how this type of marriage can be reshaped, reinvented, and reinterpreted flexibly in response to individual, family, religious, class, ethnic and other desires, needs, and constraints.
PÉTER BERTA is an honorary research associate at University College London SSEES and a senior research fellow at Budapest Business School. He is the author of the award-winning monograph Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma, and the founding editor of The Politics of Marriage and Gender book series at Rutgers University Press.
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Series Foreword PÉTER BERTA Introduction: Conceptualizing Arranged Marriage– From Binary Oppositions to Hybridity, Processuality, and Contextual Dependency PÉTER BERTA PART ONE Regulating Arranged Marriage 1 Nothing “Celestial” about It: Trafficking Underage Brides between Canada and the United States for the Purposes of Arranged Marriage SERENA PETRELLA 2 From FamilySafety Net to the WorldWide Web of Immigration Fraudsters: The Evolution of Arranged Marriages among South Asian Canadians NOORFARAH MERALI PART TWO (Re)conceptualizing Arranged Marriage 3 Arranged Marriage as a Process: From Premarital Normalization of Arranged Marriage to Arranged Divorce and Arranged Remarriage PÉTER BERTA 4 Configuring Arranged Marriage as a Foil to Forced Marriage in Multicultural Australia HELENA ZEWERI 5 Forced Marriage and “Honor”-Based Violence in Britain: Issues, Debates, and the Question of Consent CHRISTINA JULIOS PART THREE Revitalizing and Reinventing Arranged Marriage 6 Revisiting Transnational Arranged Marriages among Syrian Refugees in Germany: A Relational Approach YAFA SHANNEIK AND SCHIRIN VAHLE 7 From Patriarchal Call to Digital Hunt: Transforming “Arranged Marriages” in China PAN WANG PART FOUR Modernizing Arranged Marriage 8 Family-Arranged Marriages in Globalizing India: Shifting Scripts of Desire, Infidelity, and Emotional Compatibility SHALINI GROVER 9 Progressive Traditions, Repressive Victorians, and the Modern Present: Arranged Marriage and Gender in Sri Lanka ASHA L. ABEYASEKERA 10 “I Wanted to Choose for Myself”: Changing Marriage Patterns in the Ultra-Orthodox Society in Israel SIMA ZALCBERG BLOCK PART FIVE Diasporizing Arranged Marriage 11 Wedded to Tradition? Continuity and Change in Arranged Marriage Practices among British Indians RAKSHA PANDE 12 The Changing Face of Arranged Marriage in the South Asian Diaspora in Chicago FARHA TERNIKAR Afterword MARIAN AGUIAR Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index
Series Foreword PÉTER BERTA Introduction: Conceptualizing Arranged Marriage– From Binary Oppositions to Hybridity, Processuality, and Contextual Dependency PÉTER BERTA PART ONE Regulating Arranged Marriage 1 Nothing “Celestial” about It: Trafficking Underage Brides between Canada and the United States for the Purposes of Arranged Marriage SERENA PETRELLA 2 From FamilySafety Net to the WorldWide Web of Immigration Fraudsters: The Evolution of Arranged Marriages among South Asian Canadians NOORFARAH MERALI PART TWO (Re)conceptualizing Arranged Marriage 3 Arranged Marriage as a Process: From Premarital Normalization of Arranged Marriage to Arranged Divorce and Arranged Remarriage PÉTER BERTA 4 Configuring Arranged Marriage as a Foil to Forced Marriage in Multicultural Australia HELENA ZEWERI 5 Forced Marriage and “Honor”-Based Violence in Britain: Issues, Debates, and the Question of Consent CHRISTINA JULIOS PART THREE Revitalizing and Reinventing Arranged Marriage 6 Revisiting Transnational Arranged Marriages among Syrian Refugees in Germany: A Relational Approach YAFA SHANNEIK AND SCHIRIN VAHLE 7 From Patriarchal Call to Digital Hunt: Transforming “Arranged Marriages” in China PAN WANG PART FOUR Modernizing Arranged Marriage 8 Family-Arranged Marriages in Globalizing India: Shifting Scripts of Desire, Infidelity, and Emotional Compatibility SHALINI GROVER 9 Progressive Traditions, Repressive Victorians, and the Modern Present: Arranged Marriage and Gender in Sri Lanka ASHA L. ABEYASEKERA 10 “I Wanted to Choose for Myself”: Changing Marriage Patterns in the Ultra-Orthodox Society in Israel SIMA ZALCBERG BLOCK PART FIVE Diasporizing Arranged Marriage 11 Wedded to Tradition? Continuity and Change in Arranged Marriage Practices among British Indians RAKSHA PANDE 12 The Changing Face of Arranged Marriage in the South Asian Diaspora in Chicago FARHA TERNIKAR Afterword MARIAN AGUIAR Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index
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