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Browsing for Bridegrooms

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  • Mukta Sharangpani

    (Mukta Sharangpani has a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University and is currently Commissioner on Santa Clara County’s Domestic Violence Council and President of MAITRI, a domestic violence intervention agency in the USA. E-mail: mukta@stanford.edu)

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This article demonstrates how a traditional cultural practice such as the arranged marriage system is given a modern meaning by young women in urban India. Through young women’s narratives on love, marriage and careers, it highlights how neo-liberalisation and its resultant culture of consumerism has offered them a vocabulary through which they articulate and resolve the continuing tension between traditional notions of family-making and modern desires of individual growth. These young women’s strategic deployment of arranged marriage practices points to various shifting configurations of power; it allows us to understand women’s resistance beyond dichotomies of absolute complicity and complete opposition and provides us with an example of how an alternate modernity might be imagined and lived.

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  • Mukta Sharangpani, 2010. "Browsing for Bridegrooms," Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Centre for Women's Development Studies, vol. 17(2), pages 249-276, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:indgen:v:17:y:2010:i:2:p:249-276
    DOI: 10.1177/097152151001700203
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    1. Pathak, Gauri & Nichter, Mark, 2015. "Polycystic ovary syndrome in globalizing India: An ecosocial perspective on an emerging lifestyle disease," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 146(C), pages 21-28.

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