Unhappily Ever After: Self‐Knowledge, Living and the Reluctance to Divorce in Contemporary Middle‐Class Pakistan.

This article centres on the emotional self and its relationship with the wider structures that it inhabits to understand why middle‐class Pakistani women stay in unhappy marriages. While the reluctance to divorce in this setting is often understood as 'conservatism', I argue for an understanding tha...

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Publicado en:	Gender & History Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 534 - 543
Autor principal:	Maqsood, Ammara
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Wiley-Blackwell Jul2025
Materias:	Divorce Sociology of divorce Theory of self-knowledge Middle class women Conservatism Pakistanis Pakistan
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