Description:
Across Asia and its global diasporas, marriage remains a dominant and public institution, and divorce generates widespread comment and concern. Drawing from sensitive and compelling ethnographic portrayals drawn from diverse geographic contexts, Divorce Portals reveals divorce to be generative of transformations in individual intimate lives and wider societies.
Review Quotes:
"This is a groundbreaking and timely volume that reframes the study of divorce and its aftermath in Asia. The collection brings together chapters focusing across different regions of Asia and the diasporas. With remarkable depth, the book conceptualises divorce as a portal, through which individuals and families navigate hopes, constraints, and new possibilities. This is an essential contribution to feminist scholarship. By weaving together questions of temporality and intersectionality this volume opens new pathways for understanding intimacy, kinship, and social change in Asia and beyond."
--Rohit K Dasgupta "associate professor of gender and sexuality, London School of Economics and Political Science"