Series Foreword by Péter Berta Introduction: Messing with Marriage by Joanna Davidson and Dinah Hannaford Part I. Never Married 1. Almost Married: Two Generations of Single Mothers in Namibia by Julia Pauli 2. Single in Botswana by Jacqueline Solway 3. Freedom to Choose? Singlehood, Gender, and Sexuality in India by Sarah Lamb 4. Single Women's Invisibility in South Korea's First Decades by Laura C. Nelson Part II. Outside of Marriage 5.

Pathivratha Precarity: Sex Work on the Other Side of Marriage in South India by Kimberly Walters 6. Respectability & Black Brazilian Women's Decisions to 'Opt Out' of Remarriage by Melanie Medeiros 7. The Upward Mobility of Matrifocality and the Enigma of Bajan Marriage by Carla Freeman 8. Messing with Remarriage: The Problem of Widows in Guinea-Bissau by Joanna Davidson Part III. Within Marriage 9. Extramarital Intimacy: Juggling Femininity, Marriage, and Commercial Sex in Contemporary Japan by Akiko Takeyama 10. "What's Wrong with These Mens?": Reworking relationships and finding foreign love in the new South Africa by Brady G'Sell 11. The Appeal of Absent Husbands in Contemporary Senegal by Dinah Hannaford 12.

"Not a normal wife": Marrying Activism and Aberrance in Indonesia by Carla Jones Acknowledgments Bibliography Contributors Index.