Introduction Kaveri Qureshi and Shalini Grover Chapter 1: Marital impasse, women-in-love and nibhana: The subterranean social of marriage and same-sex in middle class Delhi Geetika Bapna Chapter 2: Khula in Pakistan: evaluating the legal remedy of woman-initiated divorce Livia Holden Chapter 3: Ripples of divorce: Redirecting family histories, contesting rights, and shame in the marriages of British South Asian adult children of divorce Kaveri Qureshi Chapter 4: Divorce Stories: Making sense of the past and imagining the future in Bangladeshi women?s narratives of marital break-down Katy Gardner Chapter 5: ?I did it!? Divorce and its afterlives in urban middle-class Sri Lanka Asha L. Abeyasekera Chapter 6: Pleasure before duty? The post-divorce lives of privileged young women in contemporary China Kailing Xie Chapter 7: Life at the crossroad of intersecting categories and relationship histories: Filipino women?s post-divorce situations in Belgium and the Netherlands Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot Chapter 8: No murals on the wall: Artifacts of the broken relationships of gay men in small town India Jayaprakash Mishra Afterword Janet Carsten Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Index.