1st Edition
Changing Marriage Patterns in Southeast Asia Economic and Socio-Cultural Dimensions
Preface List of tables List of figures Part I. Overview 1. Marriage Trends in Insular Southeast Asia: Their Economic and Socio-Cultural Dimension - Gavin W. Jones, Terence H. Hull and Maznah Mohamad 2. Statistical Indices of Marriage Patterns in Insular Southeast Asia - Terence H. Hull 3. Teenage Marriage Trends and Issues in Insular Southeast Asia - Gavin W. Jones Part II. Indonesia 4. Regional Differences in Marriage Patterns in Indonesia in the Twenty-First Century - Gavin W. Jones and Bina Gubhaju 5. Politics and Marriage among Islamic Activists In Indonesia - Setiawati Intan Savitri and Faturochman 6. Underage Marriage and Poverty in West Java, Indonesia - Sri Endras Iswarini 7. Delayed Marriage among Lower Socio-Economic Groups in an Indonesia Industrial City - Augustina Situmorang 8. Bugis Marriage: State Laws, Islam and Local Practice - Nurul Ilmi Idrus 9. Dowry Systems and Extended Family Networks: A Case Study In Manggarai and Nagekeo, Flores, Indonesia - Peter Hagul Part III. Malaysia 10. Understanding Marriage and Divorce Trends In Peninsular Malaysia - Tey Nai Peng 11. Marriage among the ‘Urbanized Rural Poor: Return Migrants In Northwest Kelantan - Maznah Mohamad and Rashidah Shuib 12. Gender Battles and the Syariah: Translating Islamic Marital Law into Everyday Practice in Malaysia - Maznah Mohamad 13. International Marriages in Malaysia: Issues arising from State Policies and Processes - Chee Heng Leng Part IV. Philippines And Singapore 14. Cohabitation and Poverty in the Philippines - Maria Midea M. Kabamalan 15. The State Of Marriage In Singapore - Eng Chuan Koh
Biography
Gavin W. Jones is Professor and the Research Leader for the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. He most recently co-edited Ultra-low Fertility in Pacific Asia: Trends, Causes and Policy Issues, also published by Routledge.
Terence H. Hull holds joint appointments with the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute and the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, at the Australian National University, where he is J.C. Caldwell chair.
Maznah Mohamad is currently Visiting Senior Research Fellow with the Asia Research Institute and the Department of Malay Studies at the National University of Singapore. Her previous publications include Feminism and the Women’s Movement in Malaysia and The Malay Handloom Weavers.
"The book combines introductory quantitative analyses of trends in marriage and teenage marriage, which give a broad picture of partnership patterns in the region, with country-specific field studies of smaller samples in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore. These studies bring a deeper understanding of marriage patterns from various points, including those of statistics, politics, poverty, culture, policy, law, migration and urbanisation. "
- Aris Ananta, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
