Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties

Global Perspectives on Marriage, Crisis, and Nation

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Since the late nineteenth century, fears that marriage is in crisis have reverberated around the world. Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties explores this phenomenon, asking why people of various races, classes, and nations frequently seem to be fretting about marriage. Each of the twelve chapters analyzes a specific time and place during which proclamations of marriage crisis have dominated public discourse, whether in 1920s India, mid-century France, or present-day Iran. While each nation has had its own reasons for escalating anxieties over marriage and the family, common themes emerge in how people have understood and debated crises in marriage. Collectively, the chapters reveal how diverse individuals have deployed the institution of marriage to talk not only about intimate relationships, but also to understand the nation, its problems, and various socioeconomic and political transformations. The volume reveals critical insights and showcases original research across interdisciplinary and national boundaries, making a groundbreaking contribution to current scholarship on marriage, family, nationalism, gender, and the law.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-04-07
Mått155 x 231 x 20 mm
Vikt422 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780199856732

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Kristin Celello is Associate Professor of History at Queens College, City University of New York. She is the author of Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States (UNC Press, 2009). Hanan Kholoussy is an Associate Professor of History at The American University in Cairo. She is the author of For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2010; AUC Press, 2010).

Introduction: "Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties: Global Perspectives on Marriage, Crisis, and Nation," Kristin Celello and Hanan Kholoussy Chapter One: "Marital Choice and Marital Crisis in Late Imperial Russia," Barbara Alpern Engel Chapter Two: "Marriage, Manumission, and Morality in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro," Erica M. Windler Chapter Three: "Marriage Crisis and All That Jazz," Nancy F. Cott Chapter Four: "Marriage and Minority: The Indian Nation, the Muslim Question, and the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929," Ishita Pande Chapter Five: "Mixed Marriage in Colonial Burma: National Identity and Nationhood at Risk," Tin Tin Htun Chapter Six: "Materialism, Contention, and Rebellion: The Changing Demands on Marriage in Colonial Zanzibar," Elke E. Stockreiter Chapter Seven: "Finding a Grand Amour in Marriage in Postwar France," Rebecca J. Pulju Chapter Eight: "Wedding Marriage to the Nation-State in Modern China: Legal Consequences for Divorce, Property, and Women's Rights," Ke Li and Sara L. Friedman Chapter Nine: "Woman-to-Woman, Polyandrous, and Child Marriage: Expressions and Contestations of Marriage Rights in Colonial and Independent Nigeria," Nwando Achebe Chapter Ten: "What Kind of Crisis? Marriage and Masculinity in Contemporary Iranian Cinema," Amy Motlagh Chapter Eleven: "Marriage and Family in Crisis in Contemporary Japan," Jeff Kingston Chapter Twelve: "Imagined Crises: Assessing Evidence of Delayed Marriage and Never-Marriage in Contemporary Egypt," Rania Salem

Highly specific issues regarding marriage and divorce frequently reflect broad national concerns, and in Domestic Tensions, National Anxieties: Global perspectives on marriage, crisis, and nation, the editors Kristin Celello and Hanan Kholoussy have collected twelve essays, spanning numerous countries and periods, to show that marriage regulations are often the site of complex power struggles ... [as this volume] demonstrates, governments consistently employ marriage regulation as a means of consolidating and increasing their power