Waithood : gender, education, and global delays in marriage and childbearing /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Other Authors: Inhorn, Marcia C., 1957- (Editor), Smith-Hefner, Nancy Joan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn, 2021.
Series:Fertility, reproduction, and sexuality ; v. 47.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Waithood : gender, education, and global delays in marriage and childbearing / Nancy J. Smith-Hefner and Marcia C. Inhorn
  • Youth, economics, and the politics of waithood : the struggle for dignity in the Middle East and North Africa / Diane Singerman
  • "Trusting is a dicey affair" : Muslim youth, gender relations, and future-making in southwestern Uganda / Dorothea E. Schulz
  • Waiting at the fada : young men, "tea circles," and delayed adulthood in Niger / Adeline Masquelier
  • Emergent waithood : institutions and marriage delays among Mayan women in Guatemala / Nicole S. Berry
  • Active waithood : youthmen, fatherhood, and men's educational aspirations in Sierra Leone / Kristen E. McLean
  • "Giving oneself time" : marriage and motherhood in urban Rwanda / Aalyia Feroz Ali Sadruddin
  • Tactics of marriage delay in China : education, rural-to-urban migration, and "leftover women" / Zachary M. Howlett
  • Too educated to marry? Muslim women and extended singlehood in Indonesia / Nancy J. Smith-Hefner
  • Conjugal conundrums : conversion and marriage delay in the contemporary Caribbean / Brendan Jamal Thornton
  • Between cynicism and idealism : voluntary waithood in Iran / Mehrdad Babadi
  • Refusing to settle : migration among single professional women in Jordan / Fida Adely
  • Never-married women in India : gendered life courses, desires, and identities in flux / Sarah Lamb
  • Blamed for delay : French norms and practices of ART in the context of increasing age-related female infertility / Manon Vialle
  • Waiting too long to mother : involuntary childlessness and assisted reproduction in contemporary Spain / Beatriz San Román
  • The egg freezing revolution? Gender, education, and reproductive waithood in the United States / Marcia C. Inhorn
  • Conclusion. Waithood in the twenty-first century / Marcia C. Inhorn and Nancy J. Smith-Hefner.