Arranging Marriage

Author : Marian Aguiar
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452955094

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The first critical analysis of contemporary arranged marriage among South Asians in a global context Arranged marriage is an institution of global fascination—an object of curiosity, revulsion, outrage, and even envy. Marian Aguiar provides the first sustained analysis of arranged marriage as a transnational cultural phenomenon, revealing how its meaning has been continuously reinvented within the South Asian diaspora of Britain, the United States, and Canada. Aguiar identifies and analyzes representations of arranged marriage in an interdisciplinary set of texts—from literary fiction and Bollywood films, to digital and print media, to contemporary law and policy on forced marriage. Aguiar interprets depictions of South Asian arranged marriage to show we are in a moment of conjugal globalization, identifying how narratives about arranged marriage bear upon questions of consent, agency, state power, and national belonging. Aguiar argues that these discourses illuminate deep divisions in the processes of globalization constructed on a fault line between individualist and collectivist agency and in the process, critiques neoliberal celebrations of “culture as choice” that attempt to bridge that separation. Aguiar advocates situating arranged marriage discourses within their social and material contexts so as to see past reductive notions of culture and grasp the global forces mediating increasingly polarized visions of agency.

Author : Reva Seth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781416561880

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First Comes Marriage by Reva Seth Pdf

Seven time-tested secrets to dating the husband of your dreams -- taken from the centuries-old tradition of arranged marriages Want commitment, love, and romance? Forget The Rules, and stop waiting for an idealized Prince Charming. In First Comes Marriage, Reva Seth shares the wisdom of more than three hundred women in arranged marriages...and shows how this classic tradition can teach twenty-first-century women important lessons about how to find -- and keep -- Mr. Right. The men you date will become the men you marry. The seven secrets in this counterintuitive guide will help you become more selective and increase your chances of finding the right person to share your life with. Seth knows her secrets work -- she married her husband after only meeting him seven times. Secret #1: Your man doesn't have to be your best friend. (That's why you've had a best girlfriend all along, right?) Secret #4: It doesn't matter if he doesn't dance. (Common interests are less important than shared values.) Secret #6: Sexual chemistry isn't always organic. (Attraction can be created -- if you know how to unlock your passion.) A practical, surprisingly progressive guide to love and romance, First Comes Marriage will open your eyes to what makes a guy perfect for you...and will help you find him, date him, and keep falling in love with him forever.

Author : Rekha Waheed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755215001

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A-Z Guide to Arranged Marriage by Rekha Waheed Pdf

Maya Malik is a 28-year-old single lonely aging Asian girl who wants a gorgeous husband and a grand ostentatious wedding. For a professional Bengali, her biggest fear isn't being overlooked for promotion. It's the realisation that she has to find a husband from a diminishing stock of eligible bachelors that consists of mommy's boys, coconut go-getters, and bendhoo bicharas. To join the league of the married, Maya endures family introductions, blind dates, with Internet meetings in a journey that takes her from London to New York to Dhaka, and then back to London again. And when close friend Jhanghir Rahman announces his sudden wedding, Maya realises that with love, life and marriage, a girl can use old world traditions, and new world savvy to get exactly what she wants. The A-Z Guide to Arranged Marriages celebrates the realities of an age-old tradition for the new generation. From bastard bridegrooms, interfering auntijhis's to wedding weepers, follow Maya's charming roller coaster ride through singledom and the arranged marriage process. 'Simply Splendid, so read, laugh and relate. Simply Splendid.' - HBA

Author : Bali Rai
Publisher : Random House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781446498859

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(Un)arranged Marriage by Bali Rai Pdf

MANNY WANTS TO BE A FOOTBALLER. OR A POP STAR. OR WRITE A BESTSELLER. HE DOESN'T WANT TO GET MARRIED... 'Harry and Ranjit were waiting for me - waiting to take me to Derby, to a wedding. My wedding. A wedding that I hadn't asked for, that I didn't want. To a girl who I didn't know... If they had bothered to open their eyes, they would have seen me: seventeen, angry, upset but determined - determined to do my own thing, to choose my own path in life...' Set partly in the UK and partly in the Punjab region of India, this is a fresh, bitingly perceptive and totally up-to-the-minute look at one young man's fight to free himself from family expectations and to be himself, free to dance to his own tune.

Author : Dr Oliver Akamnonu
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452038070

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Arranged Marriage and the Vanishing Roots by Dr Oliver Akamnonu Pdf

A poor barely educated village boy Eberechi works his way through life and makes a success of his retail clothing business. He decides to compensate for his lack of formal education by sending his teenage twin sons overseas to study in the United States. He spares no finances in the education of his sons. The latter do not take into consideration the enormous sacrifices being made by their father. They live luxuriously and squander their funds. They enter into marriages of convenience which are later to blossom into true love after the twins sons settle down to raise families. But the marriages are not in conformity with what the twins’ parents are familiar with and so fail to gain the necessary recognition and support of the twins ‘parents. These latter connive with each other and secure a wife by arranged marriage for each of their twin sons. The twin sons lured home by the huge financial benefits which acceptance of the arranged marriages would bring, acquiesce to the arranged marriages, collect the benefits abandon their new brides and disappear back to America. Fame and fortune smile on the abandoned brides when two of the biggest economic pillars of the community fall in love with, and marry the abandoned brides bringing them over to America. Mischance and curiosity again bring one of the twins into an unplanned collision course with his abandoned former bride and the law. The law of retributive justice appears to take its toll on the estranged former bridegroom and his brother who had grossly alienated themselves from their roots and denied their children the opportunity of speaking even the language of their fathers. Time the healer of wounds is expected to bring about the healing even in the midst of the failed expectations of a distraught father, a garrulous society and a rapidly changing world. A compelling story plays out, with intrigues, deep cultural attachment, squander mania, manipulations, financial arm twisting, love, cheating and a mother’s unflinching devotion to his children.

Author : Stephanie Humphrey
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1506117589

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Our Arranged Marriage by Stephanie Humphrey Pdf

The angry and bitter Thomas has lost his wife and become a Father all in the same day. And if that wasn't enough his oldest living relative has some interesting news to share...from the grave. The strong, beautiful Grace is an independent, compassionate woman full of love and life. She enjoys her life as an educator and caregiver, but has longed for a family of her own. Will she welcome the news for an instant family or will the unexpected news leave her continually longing? Thomas and Grace had been with each other from the womb, but with five years of separation and an arranged marriage to boot....will their faith in God and the stirring of their long ago friendship and love be enough to see them through? Only time and this book will tell. Enjoy this journey and rest in knowing that God works all things out for good for those who love him! Filled with prayers, flashbacks and a little marriage fun at the end.

Author : Lucy Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230283022

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Global Marriage by Lucy Williams Pdf

The popular imagination of marriage migration has been influenced by stories of marriage of convenience, of forced marriage, trafficking and of so-called mail-order brides. This book presents a uniquely global view of an expanding field that challenges these and other stereotypes of cross-border marriage.

Author : Vanitha Dayanada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000061570504

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Sexuality and Love in Arranged Marriages in India by Vanitha Dayanada Pdf

Based on in-depth interviews with urban, university educated men and women, the book lends an extensive exploration of individuals' intimate sex lives and their marital lives; merits and demerits of arranged marriages.

Author : Tulika Jaiswal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317694083

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Indian Arranged Marriages by Tulika Jaiswal Pdf

Despite the fact that more than 80% of cultures practice varying degrees of arranged marriage, scholars have thus far concentrated exclusively on American and European cultures from choice marriages, not yet fully exploring the psychology of arranged marriages. India is a prominent South Asian nation that continues to retain the historical tradition of arranged marriages in the 21st century. This book therefore provides a timely addition to marital research as it offers a comprehensive and systematic psychological examination on Indian arranged marriages. This book explores the role of individual, interactional, contextual, and cultural factors in predicting marital satisfaction in individuals who were in arranged marriages and living in India. The discussion is drawn from a survey collecting data from individuals married through the arranged marriage system in India. In light of this empirical study, the book considers the cross-cultural applicability of Western findings and proposes some key methodological and clinical considerations for examining marital relationships in Indian arranged marriages. Providing useful, much-needed scholarly insight on arranged marriages and widening the research conceptualization of marriage, this book will be of particular interest to scholars of Social Psychology, Sociology, Marital and Cross-cultural studies.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : PURD:32754075293583

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Immigration Marriage Fraud by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy Pdf

Author : Christina Julios
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317134176

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Forced Marriage and 'Honour' Killings in Britain by Christina Julios Pdf

This book explores the contemporary phenomenon of forced marriage and 'honour' killings in Britain. Set against a background of increasing 'honour'-based violence within the country's South Asian and Muslim Diasporas, the book traces the development of the 'honour' question over the past two decades. It accordingly witnesses unprecedented changes in public awareness and government policy including ground-breaking 'honour'-specific legislation and the criminalisation of forced marriage. All of which makes Britain an important context for the study of this now indigenous and self-perpetuating social problem. In considering the scale of the challenge and its underlying causes, attention is paid to the intersections of gendered power structures that disadvantage female members of 'honour' cultures as well as feminist theories that seek to explain them. The book features five key case-studies of 'honour' killings and draws from a wide range of narratives including those of 'honour' violence survivors, grassroots service providers and legislators. Such myriad of perspectives reveals the complexity of the 'honour' issue and the deep ideological divisions that characterise it. With the UK's multiculturalist discourse unable to reconcile protecting patriarchal minority cultures with safeguarding gender equality and human rights, the book raises fundamental questions about the country's future direction. Following a long trend of state-sponsored integrationist policies, the government's response to the 'honour' question points decisively in the direction of a post-multicultural British nation.

Author : Gillian Hawser
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781800465787

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The Arranged Marriage by Gillian Hawser Pdf

It is the duty of all daughters to marry, but even knowing this Perpetua is horrified when she is forced by her father and narcissistic mother into a marriage with a man she hardly knows to save the family fortune and reputation.

Author : Raksha Pande
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813599656

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Learning to Love by Raksha Pande Pdf

Learning to Love moves beyond the media and policy stereotypes that conflate arranged marriages with forced marriages. Using in-depth interviews and participant observations, this book assembles a rich and diverse array of everyday marriage narratives and trajectories and highlights how considerations of romantic love are woven into traditional arranged marriage practices. It shows that far from being a homogeneous tradition, arranged marriages involve a variety of different matchmaking practices where each family tailors its own cut-and-paste version of British-Indian arranged marriages to suit modern identities and ambitions. Pande argues that instead of being wedded to traditions, people in the British-Indian diaspora have skillfully adapted and negotiated arranged marriage cultural norms to carve out an identity narrative that portrays them as "modern and progressive migrants"–ones who are changing with the times and cultivating transnational forms of belonging.

Author : Katharine Charsley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780415586535

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Transnational Marriage by Katharine Charsley Pdf

Marriages spanning borders are not a new phenomenon, but occur with increasing frequency and contribute substantially to international mobility and transnational engagement. Perhaps because such migration has often been treated as 'secondary' to labor migration, marriage has until recent years been a neglected field in migration studies. In contemporary Europe, transnational marriages have become an increasingly focal issue for immigration regimes, for whom these border-crossing family formations represent a significant challenge. This timely volume brings together work from Europe and beyond, addressing the issue of transnational marriage from a range of perspectives (including legal frameworks, processes of integration, and gendered dynamics), presenting substantial new empirical material, and taking a fresh look at key concepts in this area.

Author : Flora Kidd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0263732967

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The Arranged Marriage by Flora Kidd Pdf