RT Article
T1 Decision-Making, Violence, Resistance, and Love: Contested and Complicating Narratives of Syrian Marriages
JF Violence against women
VO 30
IS 1
SP 31
OP 53
A1 Lokot, Michelle
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1871336228
AB Within scholarly literature as well as reports from humanitarian actors, including international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), United Nations agencies and local NGOs, Syrian marriages are often described in static, essentialist ways that reinforce Orientalist assumptions. Based on feminist ethnographic research with Syrian women and men in Jordan, this article explores marriages in historical and intersectional context, before and during displacement. The article challenges common representations of Syrian marriages and advances how Syrian women's power and agency are understood. It emphasizes women's role in deciding to marry (or not) and discusses violence and love in marriage and resistance to proposed love marriages.
K1 gender-based violence
K1 Syria
K1 Refugees
K1 Marriage
DO 10.1177/10778012231207037