Waithood

Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing

Marcia C. Inhorn, Nancy J. Smith-Hefner

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Berghahn Books
09 December 2020

Gender studies, gender groups; Sociology: family & relationships; Social & cultural anthropology; Medical anthropology

Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

The concept of “Waithood” was developed by political scientist Diane Singerman to describe the expanding period of time between adolescence and full adulthood as young people wait to secure steady employment and marry. The contributors to this volume employ the waithood concept as a frame for richly detailed ethnographic studies of “youth in waiting” from a variety of world areas, including the Middle East Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the U.S, revealing that whether voluntary or involuntary, the phenomenon of youth waithood necessitates a recognition of new gender and family roles.

Edited by: Marcia C. Inhorn, Nancy J. Smith-Hefner
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 47
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781789208993
ISBN 10: 1789208998
Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
Pages: 424
Publication Date: 09 December 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Marcia C. Inhorn is William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Yale University, where she is the Chair of the Council on Middle East Studies. A specialist on Middle East gender, religion, and reproductive health issues, she is the author of six award-winning books, including her most recent, America’s Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins (Stanford, 2018).

Reviews for Waithood: Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing

This is a beautifully organized and very well edited volume... The chapters are rich both ethnographically and theoretically and as a whole this volume makes several unique and distinctive contributions to an interdisciplinary academic literature on kinship and reproduction . * Lisa L. Wynn, President, Australian Anthropological Society