Waithood: Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing

Published by Berghahn Books 2020

Waithood

Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing

Edited by: Marcia C. Inhorn and Nancy J. Smith-Hefner

Volume 47 in the series Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789209006

Overview
Contents

About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

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).

Nancy J. Smith-Hefner is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Boston University. She is a specialist of Southeast Asia, gender, and Islam. Her most recent book Islamizing Intimacies: Youth, Sexuality, and Gender in Contemporary Indonesia (Hawaii, 2019) is a study of the changing personal lives and sexual attitudes of educated, Muslim Javanese youth.

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).

Reviews

“Using a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods with participants from multiple countries, contributing authors find that there are multiple ways to understand the liminality implied by “waithood.”…This book could be used in courses on political science, women’s studies, sociology, and ethnic studies…Recommended” • Choice

“This volume makes important interventions in research and ethnographic literature on marital, medical, and economic delays to self and social fulfilment…[It] will serve as an excellent resource for scholars of reproduction and kinship and is a necessary addition to any undergraduate curriculum on the study of time and temporality.” • Medical Anthropology Quarterly

“This is a beautifully organized and very well edited volume… The chapters are rich both ethnographically and theoretically and as a whole this volume makes several unique and distinctive contributions to an interdisciplinary academic literature on kinship and reproduction”. • Lisa L. Wynn, President, Australian Anthropological Society

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction. WAITHOOD. GENDER, EDUCATION, AND GLOBAL DELAYS IN MARRIAGE AND CHILDBEARING Nancy J. Smith-Hefner and Marcia C. Inhorn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I WAITHOOD, STATEHOOD, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DIGNITY
Chapter 1. YOUTH, ECONOMICS, AND THE POLITICS OF WAITHOOD. THE STRUGGLE FOR DIGNITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA Diane Singerman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter 2 “TRUSTING IS A DICEY AFFAIR” MUSLIM YOUTH, GENDER RELATIONS, AND FUTURE-MAKING IN SOUTHWESTERN UGANDA Dorothea E. Schulz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
Chapter 3 WAITING AT THE FADA. YOUNG MEN, “TEA CIRCLES,” AND DELAYED ADULTHOOD IN NIGER Adeline Masquelier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Chapter 4 EMERGENT WAITHOOD. INSTITUTIONS AND MARRIAGE DELAYS AMONG MAYAN WOMEN IN GUATEMALA Nicole S. Berry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
Part II GENDER, EDUCATION, AND THE ASPIRATION FOR AUTONOMY
Chapter 5 Active Waithood. Youthmen, Fatherhood, and Men’s Educational Aspirations in Sierra Leone Kristen E. McLean Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Chapter 6 “GIVING ONESELF TIME” MARRIAGE AND MOTHERHOOD IN URBAN RWANDA Aalyia Feroz Ali Sadruddin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Chapter 7 TACTICS OF MARRIAGE DELAY IN CHINA EDUCATION, RURAL-TO-URBAN MIGRATION, AND “LEFTOVER WOMEN” Zachary M. Howlett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Chapter 8 TOO EDUCATED TO MARRY? MUSLIM WOMEN AND EXTENDED SINGLEHOOD IN INDONESIA Nancy J. Smith-Hefner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Part III DELAYED MARRIAGE AND THE MEANINGS OF SINGLEHOOD
Chapter 9 CONJUGAL CONUNDRUMS CONVERSION AND MARRIAGE DELAY IN THE CONTEMPORARY CARIBBEAN Brendan Jamal Thornton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
Chapter 10 BETWEEN CYNICISM AND IDEALISM VOLUNTARY WAITHOOD IN IRAN Mehrdad Babadi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Chapter 11 REFUSING TO SETTLE MIGRATION AMONG SINGLE PROFESSIONAL WOMEN IN JORDAN Fida Adely Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Chapter 12 NEVER-MARRIED WOMEN IN INDIA GENDERED LIFE COURSES, DESIRES, AND IDENTITIES IN FLUX Sarah Lamb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	290
Part IV DELAYED CHILDBEARING AND THE QUEST FOR MOTHERHOOD
Chapter 13 BLAMED FOR DELAY FRENCH NORMS AND PRACTICES OF ART IN THE CONTEXT OF INCREASING AGE-RELATED FEMALE INFERTILITY Manon Vialle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Chapter 14 WAITING TOO LONG TO MOTHER INVOLUNTARY CHILDLESSNESS AND ASSISTED REPRODUCTION IN CONTEMPORARY SPAIN Beatriz San Román Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Chapter 15 THE EGG FREEZING REVOLUTION? GENDER, EDUCATION, AND REPRODUCTIVE WAITHOOD IN THE UNITED STATES Marcia C. Inhorn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	362
Conclusion WAITHOOD IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Marcia C. Inhorn and Nancy J. Smith-Hefner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	391
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 424

eBook

Published: December 9, 2020
ISBN: 9781789209006