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...Sara Dickey The Right Spouse: Preferential Marriages in Tamil Nadu . By Isabelle Clark-Decès . Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press , 2014 . x, 204 pp. ISBN: 9780804788069 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 The Right Spouse...

...Michael S. Billig Abstract Rajasthan, a large, arid state in northwestern India, is widely known to have an excess of males over females. When we consider how such a high sex ratio usually affects the relative availability of potential spouses (i.e., the marriage market), it seems logical...

... China. Through interviews and conversations with brokers, Japanese men and Chinese women looking for foreign spouses, relevant stakeholders in the matchmaking industries, and local people in the two cities in Northeast China, Yamaura meticulously unpacks how the marriageability of Japanese men...

... and, particularly, the "Book of relatives" and the "Book of succession." It states: "Marriage shall be based only on the mutual consent of both sexes and it shall be maintained through mutual cooperation with the equal rights of husband and wife as a basis. Laws shall be enacted considering choice of spouse...

... a survey of 450 women and their spouses in four Central Javanese villages which focused upon their perceptions of their individual input into the marriage decision as well as household economic and fertility decisions. Her findings illuminate the contradictory and often unpredictable relationships between...

... or male features: both potential spouses are treated astrologically as persons , as if they were without gender—or more accurately, as if one's sexual nature and orientation were more complicated than simple “male” or “female.” Males have both male and female qualities; so do females. 16...

... a small proportion of all workers. TABLE V MARITAL STATUS OF ALL WORKERS BY FACTORIES Marital Status Textiles Paper Engines Biscuits Rubber Total Poona (percent) (percent) (percent) (percent) (percent) (percent) (percent) Never married 8.9 5.8 32.6 24.8 35.8 Married with spouse 66.3 69.5 59.9 58.0 37.1...

...) as purely descriptive, as not opposing any other category. But this is not so, says Vatuk. In fact, "This is the category which includes one's own 'siblings'' spouses, same-sex 'siblings'' spouses, and their 'siblings'; furthermore, and conversely, the 'siblings' of one's spouse's same-sex 'siblings...

... if permitted by the H-4 visas allotted to spouses of employment immigrants. In “Negotiating Egalitarianism,” Gu explores wife-husband dynamics and alienation. Visits by in-laws produce the stresses and high familial demands dissected in “Performing Confucian Patriarchy.” The women's resistance strategies...

... and democratic households where spouses work together as equals, most women continue to lead their lives under the authority of fathers, husbands, and a new breed of managerial local cadres. The author's own field research was done in rural Beijing, Shandong, and Sichuan in the summer of 1989, with further...

... it is acceptable, even normal, to seek a marriage based on “companionate romance” between spouses who are supposedly best friends (p. 66). The central importance accorded to emotional authenticity, in turn, informs the narrative of divorcing “to regain a lost sense of self” (p. 78), which points to a static view...

... mutual support among agnates in the joint family, when the elite now need to be taught mutual support between spouses in the nuclear family. Derrett prescribes parental prevention and judicial correction. Parents of a daughter must learn to choose a groom and in-laws temperamentally compatible with her...

... are the feasting units and become ranked in terms of their potency or fertility; virtually everything in the society is "subordinated to the demands of achieving ritual status through the feasting system" (p. 25). Marriages are arranged so as to acquire spouses with maximum potency and, therefore, motivation...

... the children invariably reside. Miss Djamour analyzes Malay marriage and describes its rituals. There is a preference for a spouse as similar as possible to one's self; special preference is given to marriage within the circle of kindred. Miss Djamour briefly investigates the nature and significance of early...

... for giving the father custody of children past infancy, Malay custom prevails and it is the women with whom the children invariably reside. Miss Djamour analyzes Malay marriage and describes its rituals. There is a preference for a spouse as similar as possible to one's self; special preference is given...

... of foreign spouses (Jones and Shen 2008 ; Toyota 2008 ; Turner 2008 ; Yang and Lu 2010 ); governmental practices of deterritorialized kinship policies in the name of national identity and unity (Freeman 2011 ; Friedman 2015a ); globalized forms of commodification of intimate relations (Constable 2005...

... that persisted in Hindu law, such as the “conjugal right” to the company of a spouse who prefers to live on her own, despite the risk this carried of enabling marital rape. (This right was recognized in Hindu case law from the late nineteenth century following the British regulations of the time, but gained...

... companions, who are sometimes research assistants and sometimes censors or caretakers. In addition, she had to deal with sexism that defined her as the spouse of another researcher (Arthur Wolf, who was separately funded and engaged in a totally different project even though some of their field sites...

... “how, in the case of foreign spouses, membership of a nation is determined legally, politically, culturally and socially.” 1 Applying a Foucauldian approach through a transnational feminist lens, the contributors aptly demonstrate how the governmentality of states alters migrant women's intimate...

... and to a single patrilineage. In either case, this means that the kings were named posthumously according to the kinship categories of their mothers or spouses, to which they themselves also belonged by virtue of marriage ties. This is essentially in agreement with the explanation given to the chao-mu system...