Waithood: Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing by Inhorn, Marcia C.

Waithood: Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781789208993)

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Waithood: Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing by Inhorn, Marcia C.

Waithood: Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing

$145.00
Waithood: Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing by Inhorn, Marcia C.

Waithood: Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing

$145.00
Format: Hardcover
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The concept of "Waithood" was developed by political scientist Diane Singerman to describe the expanding period of time between adolescence and full adulthood as young people wait to secure steady employment and marry. The contributors to this volume employ the waithood concept as a frame for richly detailed ethnographic studies of "youth in waiting" from a variety of world areas, including the Middle East Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the U.S, revealing that whether voluntary or involuntary, the phenomenon of youth waithood necessitates a recognition of new gender and family roles.



Author: Marcia C. Inhorn
ISBN-10: 1789208998
ISBN-13: 9781789208993
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Language: English
Published: 12/09/2020
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.62lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d

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Choice 09/01/2021
By Marcia C. Inhorn
By Marcia C. Inhorn
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Nancy J. Smith-Hefner is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Boston University. She is a specialist of Southeast Asia, gender, and Islam. Her most recent book Islamizing Intimacies: Youth, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Indonesia (Hawaii, 2019) is a study of the changing personal lives and sexual attitudes of educated, Muslim Javanese youth.

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