{"product_id":"making-the-right-choice-asha-l-abeyasekera-9781978810303","title":"Making the Right Choice: Narratives of Marriage in Sri Lanka","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking the Right Choice \u003c\/i\u003eunravels the entangled relationship between marriage, morality, and the desire for modernity as it plays out in the context of middle-class status concerns and aspirations for upward social mobility within the Sinhala-Buddhist community in urban Sri Lanka. By focusing on individual life-histories spanning three generations, the book illuminates how narratives about a gendered self and narratives about modernity are mutually constituted and intrinsically tied to notions of agency. The book uncovers how \"becoming modern\" in urban Sri Lanka, rather than causing inter-generational conflict, is a collective aspiration realized through the efforts of bringing up educated and independent women capable of making \"right\" choices. The consequence of this collective investment is a feminist conundrum: agency does not denote the right to choose, but the duty to make the \"right\" choice; hence agency is experienced not as a sense of \"freedom,\" but rather as a burden of responsibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Asha L. Abeyasekera\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 197881030X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781978810303\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/12\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Asha L. Abeyasekera","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440234934527,"sku":"9781978810303","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_06d1fe5f-2bb0-436e-b193-1c02c3482bfc.jpg?v=1777181085","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/making-the-right-choice-asha-l-abeyasekera-9781978810303","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}