South Asian Women and Marriage: Experiences of a Cultural Script

Mehrotra, Gita R.

doi:10.1007/s12147-016-9172-7

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“…This may suggest that doing care within the context of family and community is more culturally acceptable for British Asian men than for men from different ethnic/cultural backgrounds. The 'cultural script' (Mehrotra, 2016) which informs British Asian men's performance of masculinities is one which places value on care and commitment to family, and is in some ways reflective of what masculinity theorists identify as 'caring masculinities' (Elliott, 2016). The emergence of caring masculinities is recognised as important for progressing and transforming gender relations, and what is significant is that the participants narratives here (and in Britton's 2018 research), challenge populist and pathologising constructions of Asian masculinity.…”

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‘I need to be there’: British South Asian men’s experiences of care and caring

Gill

2018

Community, Work & Family

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This article provides an insight into British South Asian men's experiences of care and caring. Care is gendered, however the ways in which care features in the lives of British Asian men is under-researched and demands attention, particularly given the changing demographics in the UK. The discussion draws on qualitative empirical research with a sample of British Asian men in their early thirties to early fifties. In depth interviews were conducted to consider roles and responsibilities within families and communities in relation to care, either as parents and/or as having ageing parents or grandparents. The findings give voice to British Asian men's experiences of care and enhance our understanding of care in the everyday and the complex and contested nature of contemporary British Asian masculinities. The findings challenge populist assumptions surrounding Asian men and provide an alternative insight into their experiences to highlight the centrality of care and caring in British Asian men's lives and to document that British Asian men do care. Whilst the stories of care are diverse, there is a strong sense that British Asian men value care, and place importance on being able to provide care and support to family.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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‘I need to be there’: British South Asian men’s experiences of care and caring

Gill

2018

Community, Work & Family

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“…As a result, everything a woman chooses to do can be scrutinized by their community, which can especially frustrate second-generation women, who may want to assimilate, but are expected to uphold values from their homeland. Mehrotra (2016) speaks about South Asian women and marriage, and how a number of authors have assumed the importance of gender, marriage, and family within South Asian diasporic culture without hearing from South Asian women directly with respect to their own lived experiences and perspectives. Through interviews with South Asian women living in the U.S., Mehrota shows that across generations, messages about (heterosexual) marriage emerged as central to how women understood their gendered experience and, as such, marriage and being marriageable function as a ''cultural script'' for middle-class South Asian womanhood (Mehrota, 2016).…”

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Exploring hybridity and identity negotiation of young Tamil Canadian women: an autoethnographic study

Sahayanathan¹

2021

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This paper presents an autoethnographic analysis of hybridity and identity negotiation related to young Tamil Canadian women. Tamil women face unique challenges when it comes to maintaining cultural practices that are so heavily embedded in our upbringing. I have experienced this within my own life, in addition to observing similar challenges among women whom I have encountered within the Sri Lankan Tamil community in the City of Toronto. Young Tamil Canadian women are finding it difficult to conform to cultural expectations given their upbringing in a Western country like Canada Using an autoethnographic approach, the purpose of this paper is to examine transnational issues young Tamil Canadian women – specifically daughters, experience in their diaspora, as a result of negotiating between cultural practices and related impacts or consequences. Specifically, I employ vignette writing, a form of creative analytic practice to explore how young Tamil women are seen as carriers of culture and related implications for their agency and autonomy. Further, I examine and communicate how personal negotiations related to choosing to follow certain Tamil cultural practices and rejecting others, can result in community isolation, rejection from diasporic relations, and uncertainties about self-worth. I consider processes of identity construction and negotiation, and how this results in the creation of a third space that celebrates difference through new ways of being, encompassing cultural values from both the Canadian and Sri Lankan Tamil spectrum. My lived experiences will translate into short narratives that create a tangible example of this phenomenon and is captured by theories of hybridity, third space, acculturation and the good daughter. Key words: Diaspora, hybridity, identity, negotiation, culture, practices, gender, roles, migration, daughters

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“…The way Kallu's economical background affects the decision of Mumani highlights the ever-present materialist agendas of the families and also reflect on the prejudice of people against the economically weaker section. The stronger the cultural identity, the more likely they will encourage early marriage to meet the needs of the community rather than the individual's discretion (Mehrotra, 2016, #). A strong sense of feeling dehumanised and objectified, as families would focus on facts on paper or physical attributes, and disregard the individuals' needs, emotions or personality.…”

Section: Women and Marriage Tradementioning

confidence: 99%

Politics of choice- deconstructing the idea of marriage

Chowdhury¹

2021

IJELS

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In this paper, I have attempted to talk about the idea of marriage largely based on three different texts that are ‘Marriages are Made by Eunice D’souza, ‘Exercise Book’ by Rabindranath Tagore and ‘Kallu’ by Ismat Chugtai. The constant subjugation of the female voice is examined through various shreds of evidence. It is quite apparent that women have hardly a say in choosing their life partner and it’s the overarching dominance of the family to which the girls have to succumb. In ‘Marriages are made’ by Eunice D’souza we see the complete dehumanization of a woman who is reduced to a mere product. Tagore in ‘Exercise Book’ attempts to enquire the prospects of child marriage whereas in Ismat Chugtai’s ‘Kallu’ we see the muted gender. Hence, we will see the ways in which authors bring to fore the idea of power struggles in the gendered narrative.

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South Asian Women and Marriage: Experiences of a Cultural Script

Cited by 19 publications

References 13 publications

‘I need to be there’: British South Asian men’s experiences of care and caring

‘I need to be there’: British South Asian men’s experiences of care and caring

Exploring hybridity and identity negotiation of young Tamil Canadian women: an autoethnographic study

Politics of choice- deconstructing the idea of marriage

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