Waithood : gender, education, and global delays in marriage and childbearing

Inhorn, Marcia C., 1957- (editor.). Smith-Hefner, Nancy Joan, (editor.).

Summary: "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"--

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ISBN: 9781789208993
ISBN: 1789208998
ISBN: 9781789209006
ISBN: 1789209005
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 414 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: New York : Berghahn, 2021.
Copyright: �2021

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General Note:	CatMonthString:september.22 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction. Waithood : gender, education, and global delays in marriage and childbearing / Nancy J. Smith-Hefner and Marcia C. Inhorn -- Youth, economics, and the politics of waithood : the struggle for dignity in the Middle East and North Africa / Diane Singerman -- "Trusting is a dicey affair" : Muslim youth, gender relations, and future-making in southwestern Uganda / Dorothea E. Schulz -- Waiting at the fada : young men, "tea circles," and delayed adulthood in Niger / Adeline Masquelier -- Emergent waithood : institutions and marriage delays among Mayan women in Guatemala / Nicole S. Berry -- Active waithood : youthmen, fatherhood, and men's educational aspirations in Sierra Leone / Kristen E. McLean -- "Giving oneself time" : marriage and motherhood in urban Rwanda / Aalyia Feroz Ali Sadruddin -- Tactics of marriage delay in China : education, rural-to-urban migration, and "leftover women" / Zachary M. Howlett -- Too educated to marry? Muslim women and extended singlehood in Indonesia / Nancy J. Smith-Hefner -- Conjugal conundrums : conversion and marriage delay in the contemporary Caribbean / Brendan Jamal Thornton -- Between cynicism and idealism : voluntary waithood in Iran / Mehrdad Babadi -- Refusing to settle : migration among single professional women in Jordan / Fida Adely -- Never-married women in India : gendered life courses, desires, and identities in flux / Sarah Lamb -- Blamed for delay : French norms and practices of ART in the context of increasing age-related female infertility / Manon Vialle -- Waiting too long to mother : involuntary childlessness and assisted reproduction in contemporary Spain / Beatriz San Rom�an -- The egg freezing revolution? Gender, education, and reproductive waithood in the United States / Marcia C. Inhorn -- Conclusion. Waithood in the twenty-first century / Marcia C. Inhorn and Nancy J. Smith-Hefner.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
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Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 29, 2020).