Changing Marriage Patterns in Southeast Asia

Economic and Socio-Cultural Dimensions
Herausgeber: Jones, Gavin W; Mohamad, Maznah; Hull, Terence H

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Produktbeschreibung

"This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of marriage in archipelagic Southeast Asian countries - Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. It examines the way trends in the formation and dissolution of marriages are related to changes in the economy and society in the region."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780415617338
• ISBN-10: 0415617332
• Artikelnr.: 40185052

Autorenporträt

Gavin W. Jones is Professor and the Research Leader for the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. He most recently co-edited Ultra-low Fertility in Pacific Asia: Trends, Causes and Policy Issues, also published by Routledge. Terence H. Hull holds joint appointments with the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute and the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, at the Australian National University, where he is J.C. Caldwell chair. Maznah Mohamad is currently Visiting Senior Research Fellow with the Asia Research Institute and the Department of Malay Studies at the National University of Singapore. Her previous publications include Feminism and the Women¿s Movement in Malaysia and The Malay Handloom Weavers.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Overview 1. Marriage Trends in Insular Southeast Asia: Their
Economic and Socio-Cultural Dimension 2. Statistical Indices of Marriage
Patterns in Insular Southeast Asia 3. Teenage Marriage Trends and Issues in
Insular Southeast Asia Part II. Indonesia 4. Regional Differences in
Marriage Patterns in Indonesia in the Twenty-First Century 5. Politics and
Marriage among Islamic Activists In Indonesia 6. Underage Marriage and
Poverty in West Java, Indonesia 7. Delayed Marriage among Lower
Socio-Economic Groups in an Indonesia Industrial City 8. Bugis Marriage:
State Laws, Islam and Local Practice 9. Dowry Systems and Extended Family
Networks: A Case Study In Manggarai and Nagekeo, Flores, Indonesia Part
III. Malaysia 10. Understanding Marriage and Divorce Trends In Peninsular
Malaysia 11. Marriage among the 'Urbanized Rural Poor: Return Migrants In
Northwest Kelantan 12. Gender Battles and the Syariah: Translating Islamic
Marital Law into Everyday Practice in Malaysia 13. International Marriages
in Malaysia: Issues arising from State Policies and Processes Part IV.
Philippines And Singapore 14. Cohabitation and Poverty in the Philippines
15. The State Of Marriage In Singapore