Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction Living in a Global North consumer society
- 1 Constructing relationships in a global economy
- 2 Globalising feminist legal theory
- 3 State, market and family in a Global North consumer society
- 4 Gender justice in Africa
- 5 From anonymity to attribution
- 6 Constructing body work
- 7 Global body work markets
- 8 Constructing South Asian womanhood through law
- 9 Trading and contesting belonging in multicultural Britain
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
8 - Constructing South Asian womanhood through law
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction Living in a Global North consumer society
- 1 Constructing relationships in a global economy
- 2 Globalising feminist legal theory
- 3 State, market and family in a Global North consumer society
- 4 Gender justice in Africa
- 5 From anonymity to attribution
- 6 Constructing body work
- 7 Global body work markets
- 8 Constructing South Asian womanhood through law
- 9 Trading and contesting belonging in multicultural Britain
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
Introduction
The next two chapters are concerned with transnational marriage chains. This chapter concentrates on the ‘vertical’ Global South jurisdictional pyramids in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The next shifts to the Global North to consider the UK, focusing firstly on the position of the communities that have origins in the countries discussed here; and secondly on the transnational social and economic relationships (the horizontal links between the two pyramids) involved when people move to meet the desire for particular marriage partners and the trading of contested norms, which contribute to the construction of the identities of spouses, that accompany them.
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- Gender, Law and Justice in a Global Market , pp. 227 - 261Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011