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    Domestic tensions, national anxieties : global perspectives on marriage, crisis, and nation / edited by Kristin Celello and Hanan Kholoussy.

    Contributor(s): Celello, Kristin [editor.] | Kholoussy, Hanan [editor.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]Description: xiv, 279 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199856749; 0199856745; 9780199856732; 0199856737Subject(s): Marriage -- Social aspects -- History | Social problems | Crises | Civilization, Modern | Civilization, Modern | Crises | Marriage -- Social aspects | Social problems | Eheschließung | Gesellschaft | Krise | Soziale SituationGenre/Form: History.DDC classification: 306.81 LOC classification: HQ519 | .D637 2016
    Contents:
    Introduction: global perspectives on marriage, crisis, and nation / Kristin Celello and Hanan Kholoussy -- Marital choice and marital crisis in late imperial Russia / Barbara Alpern Engel -- Marriage, manumission, and morality in turn-of-the-century Rio de Janeiro / Erica M. Windler -- Marriage crisis and all that jazz / Nancy F. Cott -- Marriage and minority: the Indian nation, the Muslim question, and the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929 / Ishita Pande -- Mixed marriage in colonial Burma: national identity and nationhood at risk / Tin Tin Htun -- Materialism, contention, and rebellion: the changing demands on marriage in colonial Zanzibar / Elke E. Stockreiter -- Finding a Grand Amour in marriage in postwar France / Rebecca J. Pulju -- Wedding marriage to the nation-state in modern China: legal consequences for divorce, property, and women's rights / Ke Li and Sara L. Friedman -- Woman-to-woman, polyandrous, and child marriage: expressions and contestations of marriage rights in colonial and independent Nigeria / Nwando Achebe -- What kind of crisis? Marriage and masculinity in contemporary Iranian cinema / Amy Motlagh -- Marriage and family in crisis in contemporary Japan / Jeff Kingston -- Imagined crises: assessing evidence of delayed marriage and never-marriage in contemporary Egypt / Rania Salem.
    Summary: "Since the late nineteenth century, fears that marriage is in crisis have reverberated around the world. This volume explores this phenomenon, asking why people of various races, classes, and nations frequently seem to be fretting about marriage. Each of the chapters analyzes a specific time and place during which proclamations of marriage crisis have dominated public discourse, whether in late imperial Russia, 1920s India, mid-century France, or present-day Iran. 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."-- Back cover.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.

    Introduction: global perspectives on marriage, crisis, and nation / Kristin Celello and Hanan Kholoussy -- Marital choice and marital crisis in late imperial Russia / Barbara Alpern Engel -- Marriage, manumission, and morality in turn-of-the-century Rio de Janeiro / Erica M. Windler -- Marriage crisis and all that jazz / Nancy F. Cott -- Marriage and minority: the Indian nation, the Muslim question, and the Child Marriage Restraint Act of 1929 / Ishita Pande -- Mixed marriage in colonial Burma: national identity and nationhood at risk / Tin Tin Htun -- Materialism, contention, and rebellion: the changing demands on marriage in colonial Zanzibar / Elke E. Stockreiter -- Finding a Grand Amour in marriage in postwar France / Rebecca J. Pulju -- Wedding marriage to the nation-state in modern China: legal consequences for divorce, property, and women's rights / Ke Li and Sara L. Friedman -- Woman-to-woman, polyandrous, and child marriage: expressions and contestations of marriage rights in colonial and independent Nigeria / Nwando Achebe -- What kind of crisis? Marriage and masculinity in contemporary Iranian cinema / Amy Motlagh -- Marriage and family in crisis in contemporary Japan / Jeff Kingston -- Imagined crises: assessing evidence of delayed marriage and never-marriage in contemporary Egypt / Rania Salem.

    "Since the late nineteenth century, fears that marriage is in crisis have reverberated around the world. This volume explores this phenomenon, asking why people of various races, classes, and nations frequently seem to be fretting about marriage. Each of the chapters analyzes a specific time and place during which proclamations of marriage crisis have dominated public discourse, whether in late imperial Russia, 1920s India, mid-century France, or present-day Iran. 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."-- Back cover.

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