{"product_id":"why-would-i-be-married-reena-kukreja-9781501764134","title":"Why Would I Be Married Here?: Marriage Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy Would I Be Married Here?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e examines marriage migration undertaken by rural bachelors in North India, unable to marry locally, who travel across the breadth of India seeking brides who do not share the same caste, ethnicity, language, or customs as themselves.\u003c\/b\u003e Combining rich ethnographic evidence with Dalit feminist and political economy frameworks, Reena Kukreja connects the macro-political violent process of neoliberalism to the micro-personal level of marriage and intimate gender relations to analyze the lived reality of this set of migrant brides in cross-region marriages among dominant-peasant caste Hindus and Meo Muslims in rural North India. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy Would I Be Married Here? \u003c\/i\u003ereveals how predatory capitalism links with patriarchy to dispossess many poor women from India's marginalized Dalit and Muslim communities of marriage choices in their local communities. It reveals how, within the context of the increasing spread of capitalist relations, these women's pragmatic cross-region migration for marriage needs to be reframed as an exercise of their agency that simultaneously exposes them to new forms of gender subordination and internal othering of caste discrimination and ethnocentrism in conjugal communities.\u003ci\u003e Why Would I Be Married Here?\u003c\/i\u003e offers powerful examples of how contemporary forces of neoliberalism reshape the structural oppressions compelling poor women from marginalized communities worldwide into making compromised choices about their bodies, their labor, and their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Reena Kukreja\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501764136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501764134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2023","brand":"Reena Kukreja","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054284599551,"sku":"9781501764134","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8f4cc6de-26bd-4e4f-b35d-9dde3004c817.jpg?v=1685029068","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/why-would-i-be-married-reena-kukreja-9781501764134","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}