IV. Researching South Asian Women's Experiences of Marriage: Resisting Stereotypes through an Exploration of `Space' and `Embodiment'

Majumdar, Anamika

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“…Giddens (1992) has written approvingly of a general shift to intimacy, companionate marriage and equality in late modernity, but the 20 situation of Farhat and Fiyaz suggests that the expectation of intimacy is a factor in destabilising marriage. In addition to exploring specific practices such as transnational close-kin marriage, we agree with Majumdar (2007) that it is important to de-exoticize the study of British Asian marriage and kinship and explore commonalities with wider changing expectations of conjugality. Expectations of intimacy do not map straightforwardly onto a geography of modernity that contrasts the 'progressive' expectations of people born in Britain with the 'traditional' aspirations of Pakistani migrant spouses, because marital expectations are far from static in migrants' countries of origin (Parry, 2004, Ahmed, 2003, Mody, 2008, Grover, 2010, Qureshi, 2011.…”

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“…Studies of divorce acknowledge the paucity of empirical research on ethnic minority experiences (Simpson, 1998, Smart and Neale, 1999, 2001). There have been moves to theorize marital breakdown and divorce beyond the fragmentation and separation implied by the 'individualization' thesis by developing theories of 'connectedness' emphasizing the relational, emotional and intimate dimensions of marriage that mean so much to its actual 3 experience (Smart, 2007: 189), but the diversity of intimate relationships among migrants and minorities has not been appreciated (Jamieson, 2011, Majumdar, 2007, Mai and King, 2009.…”

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Marital instability among British Pakistanis: transnationality, conjugalities and Islam

Qureshi¹,

Charsley²,

Shaw³

2012

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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General rightsThis document is made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the reference above. Full terms of use are available: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/pure/about/ebr-terms 1 Marital instability among British Pakistanis: transnationality, conjugalities and Islam AbstractThis article offers insights into the dynamics underlying an increase in marital instability in British Pakistani families, thus challenging stereotypes of British South Asian populations as representing 'old fashioned' families, with their lower rates of divorce in contrast with the wider British population. In addition to problems of compatibility, domestic violence and infidelity, we explore dynamics that may be more specific to the British Pakistani population, namely the transnational nature of many marriages, attitudes to parental involvement in arranging marriages, and the place of Islam. We suggest that, while arranged marriages were conventionally seen as safer than love marriages, both young people and their parents may now be viewing arranged marriages as riskier. In an arranged marriage that brings family approval but not personal fulfilment, young people are increasingly supported to divorce and remarry, with a greater degree of personal say in spouse selection.

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Marital instability among British Pakistanis: transnationality, conjugalities and Islam

Qureshi¹,

Charsley²,

Shaw³

2012

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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“…It was assumed that, because of the broader disapproval of divorce, domestic abuse was one of the few situations in which women would insist on divorce (Hassouneh-Philips 2001;Thiara et al 2010;Chaudhuri et al 2014). However, divorces in South Asian diasporas are underpinned not only by situations of domestic abuse, but also by marital expectations that have been shown to be not static and monolithic but local, intersectionally-inflected 'cultural scripts' (Mehrotra 2016), entailing agential, embodied experiences of sexuality and reproduction (Majumdar 2007) and a certain degree of acceptance of a growing individualisation in relationship-making (Ahmad 2012).…”

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A British South Asian Muslim relational negotiation of divorce: uncoupling beyond the couple

Qureshi

Metlo

2021

Families, Relationships and Societies

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Through analysis of the narratives of one British South Asian Muslim woman contemplating divorce, this article explores how the termination of marriage is negotiated within families. The article charts the involvement and emotional implication of multiple family members in the decision at multiple levels: the interpersonal, via their involvement as sounding boards, advisers and mediators, and the intersubjective, as people’s sense of their own internal will or resolve to divorce is dialogical and unstably tied to others’ expressed views. The negotiation of divorce is an agentic intervention in the reordering of relationships and sheds light on wider processes linking agency, culture and belief. While these multiple levels of the relational negotiation of divorce may be particularly piqued in South Asian contexts, there are wider implications for sociology as, in contrast with individualisation theory, uncoupling is shown to involve more than the feelings and choices of just the husband and wife.

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“…Locating early marriage as a problem that violates universal rights strips away the context that renders early marriage a comprehensible familial and cultural practice, within a particular set of social circumstances. This enables the reproduction of a more general representation of the Muslim girl (and particularly the African Muslim girl) as racialised, classed and gendered Other, the abjected feminine – an essential victim, silent, passive, always-already requiring rescue (Ahmed, Reavey, & Majumdar, 2009; Majumdar, 2007). This underestimates women’s ability to resist cultural practices without the rescuing activity of external agencies, and undermines the potential effectiveness of local community organizing around women’s issues.…”

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“…This enables the reproduction of a more general representation of the Muslim girl (and particularly the African Muslim girl) as racialised, classed and gendered Other, the abjected feminine -an essential victim, silent, passive, always-already requiring rescue (Ahmed, Reavey, & Majumdar, 2009;Majumdar, 2007).…”

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Hearing the silences: Adult Nigerian women’s accounts of ‘early marriages’

Callaghan

Gambo²,

Fellin

2015

Feminism & Psychology

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Abstract'Early marriage' is a relatively common, but under-researched global phenomenon, associated with poor health, mental health, educational and occupational outcomes, particularly for young girls. In this article, we draw on qualitative interviews with 6Nigerian women from Sokoto State, who were married between the ages of 8 and 15. The interviews explored young women's experiences of the transition to marriage, being married, pregnancy and their understanding of the marital and parental role. UsingInterpretive Phenomenological Analysis, we explore women's constrained articulations of their experiences of early marriage, as they are constituted within a social context where the identity of 'woman' is bound up in values and practices around marriage and motherhood.We explore the complexity of 'hearing' women's experiences when their identities are bound up in culturally overdetermined ideas of femininity that function explicitly to silence and constrain the spaces in which women can speak.

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IV. Researching South Asian Women's Experiences of Marriage: Resisting Stereotypes through an Exploration of `Space' and `Embodiment'

Cited by 11 publications

References 21 publications

Marital instability among British Pakistanis: transnationality, conjugalities and Islam

Marital instability among British Pakistanis: transnationality, conjugalities and Islam

A British South Asian Muslim relational negotiation of divorce: uncoupling beyond the couple

Hearing the silences: Adult Nigerian women’s accounts of ‘early marriages’

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