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"Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation as a result of global and other processes such as the revolution of digital technology, democratization of transnational mobility, or shifting significance of patriarchal power structures. The ethnographically informed chapters not only highlight how the gendered and intergenerational politics of agency, autonomy, choice, consent, and intimacy work in the contexts of partner choice and management of marriage, but also point out that arranged marriages are increasingly varied and they can be reshaped, reinvented, and reinterpreted flexibly in response to individual, family, religious, class, ethnic and other desires, needs, and constraints. The authors convincingly demonstrate that a nuanced investigation of the reasons, complex dynamics, and consequences of arranged marriages offers a refreshing analytical lens that can significantly contribute to a deeper understanding of other phenomena such as globalization, modernization, international migration as well as patriarchal value regimes, intergenerational power imbalances, and gendered subordination and vulnerability of women"--
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Mediating the Uprising: Narratives of Gender and Marriage in Syrian Television Drama shows how gender and marriage metaphors inform post-uprising Syrian drama for various forms of cultural and political critique. These narratives have become complicated since the uprising due to the Syrian regime's effort to control the revolutionary discourse. As Syria's uprising spawned more terrorist groups, some drama creators became nostalgic for pre-war days. While for some screenwriters a return to pre-2011 life would be welcome after so much bloodshed, others advocated profound cultural and social transformation, instead. They employed marriage and gender metaphors in the stories they wrote to engage in political critique, even at the risk of creating marketing difficulties for the shows or they created escapist stories such as transnational adaptations and Old Damascus tales. Serving as heritage preservation, Mediating the Uprising underscores that television drama creators in Syria have many ways of engaging in protest, with gender and marriage at the heart of the polemic.
Marriage on television. --- Masculinity on television. --- Sex on television. --- Sex role on television. --- Television programs --- Women on television. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. --- Women in television --- Women in television plays --- Television --- Programs, Television --- Shows, Television --- Television shows --- TV shows --- Television broadcasting --- Electronic program guides (Television) --- Television scripts --- Sex role in television --- Sex in television --- Social aspects --- gender, marriage, Syrian, Television Drama, Global, Politics, Mediating, Uprising, Women's Studies, Film, Media Studies, Communications, Middle East Studies, Popular Culture, Political Science, World, Middle Eastern, Performing Arts, Television, History, Criticism, Social Science, Qabaday, constructing, Fatherhood, Political Protest, post-uprising, cultural critique, political critique, Syrian regime, revolutionary, terrorist groups, nostalgic, pre-war, bloodshed, cultural tranformation, social transformation, culture, transformation, critique, father, mother, motherhood. --- Literature
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