Negotiating Adolescence in Rural Bangladesh: A Journey through School, Love and Marriage
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- Synopsis
- The book interrogates the experience of being young and becoming adult in rural Bangladesh, in a context of profound processes of socio economic change. Throughout South Asia, new educational opportunities and an increase in the age at which girls and boys get married are opening new spaces for young people to live the passage to adulthood. This book documents and describes the everyday reality of this changing gendered transition for young people in a rural area of South West Bangladesh. If focuses on three main areas that are central to young people's experience: those of college and student life, friendships and relationships with those of the same sex and across sexes and marriage and the issues involved in the choice of a marriage partner.
- Copyright:
- 2013
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9789383074143
- Publisher:
- Zubaan Books
- Date of Addition:
- 09/24/17
- Copyrighted By:
- Nicoletta Del Franco, 2
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Romance, Parenting and Family, Education, Sociology
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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