Waithood (eBook)

Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing

Marcia C. Inhorn, Nancy J. Smith-Hefner (Herausgeber)

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2020
424 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9781789209006 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Marcia C. Inhorn is William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University, where she is the Chair of the Council on Middle East Studies. A specialist on Middle East gender, religion, and reproductive health issues, she is the author of six award-winning books, including her most recent, America’s Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins (Stanford, 2018).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.12.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
• Reihe/Serie: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: active waithood • Anthropology (General), Gender Studies and Sexuality, Sociology • ART • Assisted Reproductive Technologies • culture of waiting • delayed adulthood • Egg freezing • emergent waithood • fada • Fatherhood • Guatemala • India • Iran • Jordan • Labor • Male sociality • Mayan women • Middle East • Migration • Motherhood • Muslim matchmaking services • never-marriedness • Niger • Oocyte cryopreservation • politics of waithood • refusing to settle • Reproduction • reproductive waithood • Sierra Leone • singlehood • single women • Social Class • Uganda • United States • voluntary waithood • Women • Work • Youth
• ISBN-13: 9781789209006 / 9781789209006