Description
About the Author
Joanna Davidson is an associate professor of anthropology at Boston University. She is the author of Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa.
Dinah Hannaford is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Houston. She is the author of Marriage Without Borders: Transnational Spouses in Neoliberal Senegal.
Reviews
"Grounded in superb ethnographic chapters drawn from all over the world, Opting Out explores the diverse ways in which women exert agency in and against marriage. With fresh insight into practices that occur in every society, this collection delivers a rich and rewarding comparative examination of an astonishingly overlooked aspect of everyday life." -- Daniel Jordan Smith * author of A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria *
"Provocatively and engagingly, this volume provides compelling ethnographic evidence of the changes marriage is undergoing around the world. The impact of these changes raises profound questions, not only about the future of marriage itself, but which, as these essays show, go to the heart of gender relations and their intersection with politics, economics and religion." -- Janet Carsten * co-editor of Marriage in Past, Present, and Future Tense *
"Grounded in superb ethnographic chapters drawn from all over the world, Opting Out explores the diverse ways in which women exert agency in and against marriage. With fresh insight into practices that occur in every society, this collection delivers a rich and rewarding comparative examination of an astonishingly overlooked aspect of everyday life." -- Daniel Jordan Smith * author of A Culture of Corruption: Everyday Deception and Popular Discontent in Nigeria *
Book Information
ISBN 9781978830103
Author Joanna Davidson
Format Paperback
Page Count 260
Imprint Rutgers University Press
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Weight(grams) 64g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 18mm