Waithood

Marcia C. Inhorn is William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University, where she is the Chair of the Council on Middle East Studies. A specialist on Middle East gender, religion, and reproductive health issues, she is the author of six award-winning books, including her most recent, America’s Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins (Stanford, 2018).

• List of FiguresIntroduction: Waithood: Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and ChildbearingNancy J. Smith-Hefner and Marcia C. InhornPart I: Waithood, Statehood, and the Struggle for DignityChapter 1. Youth, Economics, and the Politics of Waithood: The Struggle for Dignity in the Middle East and North AfricaDiane SingermanChapter 2. “Trusting is a Dicey Affair”: Muslim Youth, Gender Relations, and Future-Making in Southwestern UgandaDorothea E. SchulzChapter 3. Waiting at the Fada: Young Men, “Tea Circles,” and Delayed Adulthood in NigerAdeline MasquelierChapter 4. Emergent Waithood: Institutions and Marriage Delays among Mayan Women in GuatemalaNicole S. BerryPart II: Gender, Education, and the Aspiration for AutonomyChapter 5. Active Waithood: Youthmen, Fatherhood, and Men’s Educational Aspirations in Sierra LeoneKristen E. McLeanChapter 6. “Giving Oneself Time”: Marriage and Motherhood in Urban RwandaAalyia Feroz Ali SadruddinChapter 7. Tactics of Marriage Delay in China: Education, Rural-to-Urban Migration, and “Leftover Women”Zachary M. HowlettChapter 8. Too Educated to Marry? Muslim Women and Extended Singlehood in IndonesiaNancy J. Smith-HefnerPart III: Delayed Marriage and the Meanings of SinglehoodChapter 9. Conjugal Conundrums: Conversion and Marriage Delay in the Contemporary CaribbeanBrendan Jamal ThorntonChapter 10. Between Cynicism and Idealism: Voluntary Waithood in IranMehrdad BabadiChapter 11. Refusing to Settle: Migration among Single Professional Women in JordanFida AdelyChapter 12. Never-Married Women in India: Gendered Life Courses, Desires, and Identities in FluxSarah LambPart IV: Delayed Childbearing and the Quest for MotherhoodChapter 13. Blamed for Delay: French Norms and Practices of ART in the Context of Increasing Age-Related Female InfertilityManon VialleChapter 14. Waiting Too Long to Mother: Involuntary Childlessness and Assisted Reproduction in Contemporary SpainBeatriz San RománChapter 15. The Egg Freezing Revolution? Gender, Education, and Reproductive Waithood in AmericaMarcia C. InhornConclusion: Waithood in the Twenty-First CenturyMarcia C. Inhorn and Nancy J. Smith-HefnerIndex

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