"Across Asia and its global diasporas, marriage remains a dominant and public institution, and divorce generates widespread comment and concern. Breaking new ground, Divorce Portals reveals divorce to be generative of transformations in individual intimate lives and wider societies. Through compelling, sensitive ethnographic accounts inviting readers into the lives of people undergoing separation and divorce, chapters capture the antecedent-lives of uncoupling - the imaginary, anticipatory, and cautionary - and the after-lives of divorce, in the immediate aftermath and across life courses and generations. Chapters explore the vivid and bold new selves that divorcees are fashioning for themselves and highlight the intersecting inequalities that shape post-divorce predicaments, sometimes belying the hoped-for freedoms of divorce and remarriage. Together, chapters chart nascent and haltering accommodations of the single, repartnered, and queer. Across cases drawn from diverse geographic contexts, this book unlocks new, expansive, and accessible ways to think about divorce and its aftermath"-- Provided by publisher."Across Asia and its global diasporas, marriage remains a dominant and public institution, and divorce generates widespread comment and concern. Drawing from sensitive and compelling ethnographic portrayals drawn from diverse geographic contexts, Divorce Portals reveals divorce to be generative of transformations in individual intimate lives and wider societies.

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