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Marriage and Health

The Well-Being of Same-Sex Couples

Rutgers University Press

Evidence shows that married couples have better overall health than unmarried people. Scholars and policy makers contend that same-sex marriage provide similar benefits as well. Marriage and Health represents the forefront of marriage and health research on same-sex couples. This collection of essays presents new perspectives that address the challenges faced by same-sex couples in multiple domains of well-being.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Marriage and Health

The Well-Being of Same-Sex Couples

Rutgers University Press

Evidence shows that married couples have better overall health than unmarried people. Scholars and policy makers contend that same-sex marriage provide similar benefits as well. Marriage and Health represents the forefront of marriage and health research on same-sex couples. This collection of essays presents new perspectives that address the challenges faced by same-sex couples in multiple domains of well-being.

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Intimate Geopolitics

Love, Territory, and the Future on India’s Northern Threshold

Rutgers University Press

Intimate Geopolitics is the story of love and territory in the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. This book takes on global processes of “demographic fever dreams,” which animate political movements, by understanding them in a deeply rooted local context and through the lives of ordinary people making decisions about love, babies, and the future.
 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Intimate Geopolitics

Love, Territory, and the Future on India's Northern Threshold

Rutgers University Press

Intimate Geopolitics is the story of love and territory in the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. This book takes on global processes of “demographic fever dreams,” which animate political movements, by understanding them in a deeply rooted local context and through the lives of ordinary people making decisions about love, babies, and the future.
 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Courting Desire

Litigating for Love in North India

Rutgers University Press

Courting Desire traces organically evolving ideas on sexual consent and legal subjectivity through a study of marital patterns in North India. Through research in courtrooms and community spaces, it outlines the processes through which eloping couples secure legal validity for their relationships of choice where family-arranged matches are the norm. 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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Honor and the Political Economy of Marriage

Violence against Women in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq

By Joanne Payton; Foreword by Deeyah Khan
Rutgers University Press

‘Honor' crimes target women and girls for transgressions against the moral code of the community, punishing female sexual autonomy in particular. This book argues that ‘honor’ represents women’s conformity to culturally-enforced standards of marriageability and underpins family and marital connections which form a primary method of organization within the community.
 

  • Copyright year: 2020
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