2018
DOI: 10.1111/etho.12193
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Being Single in India: Gendered Identities, Class Mobilities, and Personhoods in Flux

Abstract: This article explores the stories of single women living in the urban metropolis of Kolkata, and in smaller towns and villages of West Bengal, as a means to illuminate emerging possibilities and constraints of selfhood for women in contemporary India. In so doing, the piece examines the ways gendered identities intersect with other forces and ideals at stake, including the institution of heterosexual marriage, class mobilities, and values surrounding individualist versus relational personhood. Because they are… Show more

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“…Another option is splitting and hiding their desiring-selves like Cass: working hard every minute, keeping busy, forgetting about the fact that she is a girl. Making as-if, or dropping off the desiring-selves, as Lamb (2018) denotes – every choice is accompanied by feelings of pain and loss. In facing this, we are all the same.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Another option is splitting and hiding their desiring-selves like Cass: working hard every minute, keeping busy, forgetting about the fact that she is a girl. Making as-if, or dropping off the desiring-selves, as Lamb (2018) denotes – every choice is accompanied by feelings of pain and loss. In facing this, we are all the same.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ewing 1990;Hermann 2003a: 85). So verdeutlichen unter anderem ethnologische Untersuchungen, dass es in Indien eine Vielzahl von Auffassungen von Person und Selbst gibt, in denen Vorstellungen vom relationalen und autonomen Selbst nebeneinander existieren und sich gegenseitig beeinflussen (Lamb 1997;Ewing 1990). Mattison Mines (1994: 2) spricht zum Beispiel vom "Tamil Individualism", und verdeutlicht, dass es auch in Indien Vorstellungen vom Individuum und Individualität gibt, die sich aber vom westlichen Verständnis vom Individuum unterscheiden.…”
Section: Die Zeitlandschaft Indischer Wissenschaftler*innen In Göttingenunclassified
“…Gender und die Lebensphase, in der sich Menschen befinden, spielen eine wichtige Rolle für Konzepte des Selbst (Lamb 1997). Meine Gesprächspartner*innen befanden sich zur Zeit meiner Studie in einer Lebensphase zwischen Kindheit und Erwachsensein, die als Jugend bezeichnet werden kann (Bansal 2013: 2).…”
Section: Die Jugend Als Fundament Für Die Zukunftunclassified
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“…Living as lesbian, bisexual, or TG required rejecting the expectation of heterosexual marriage imposed upon them by their extended families. Anthropologists have powerfully documented the trauma experienced by Indian women living outside the ‘compulsory norm’ of marriage (Lamb 2018). The youth in this study did not have the financial solvency to survive the downwardly mobile effects associated with this asocial move, yet they embraced the path they had taken even as they longed to return home.…”
Section: Sexual Modernity and Section 377mentioning
confidence: 99%