Table of Contents
List of Figures
Introduction: Waithood: Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing Nancy J. Smith-Hefner and Marcia C. Inhorn
Part I: Waithood, Statehood, and the Struggle for Dignity
Chapter 1. Youth, Economics, and the Politics of Waithood: The Struggle for Dignity in the Middle East and North Africa Diane Singerman
Chapter 2. “Trusting is a Dicey Affair”: Muslim Youth, Gender Relations, and Future-Making in Southwestern Uganda Dorothea E. Schulz
Chapter 3. Waiting at the Fada: Young Men, “Tea Circles,” and Delayed Adulthood in Niger Adeline Masquelier
Chapter 4. Emergent Waithood: Institutions and Marriage Delays among Mayan Women in Guatemala Nicole S. Berry
Part II: Gender, Education, and the Aspiration for Autonomy
Chapter 5. Active Waithood: Youthmen, Fatherhood, and Men’s Educational Aspirations in Sierra Leone Kristen E. McLean
Chapter 6. “Giving Oneself Time”: Marriage and Motherhood in Urban Rwanda Aalyia Feroz Ali Sadruddin
Chapter 7. Tactics of Marriage Delay in China: Education, Rural-to-Urban Migration, and “Leftover Women” Zachary M. Howlett
Chapter 8. Too Educated to Marry? Muslim Women and Extended Singlehood in Indonesia Nancy J. Smith-Hefner
Part III: Delayed Marriage and the Meanings of Singlehood
Chapter 9. Conjugal Conundrums: Conversion and Marriage Delay in the Contemporary Caribbean Brendan Jamal Thornton
Chapter 10. Between Cynicism and Idealism: Voluntary Waithood in Iran Mehrdad Babadi
Chapter 11. Refusing to Settle: Migration among Single Professional Women in Jordan Fida Adely
Chapter 12. Never-Married Women in India: Gendered Life Courses, Desires, and Identities in Flux Sarah Lamb
Part IV: Delayed Childbearing and the Quest for Motherhood
Chapter 13. Blamed for Delay: French Norms and Practices of ART in the Context of Increasing Age-Related Female Infertility Manon Vialle
Chapter 14. Waiting Too Long to Mother: Involuntary Childlessness and Assisted Reproduction in Contemporary Spain Beatriz San Román
Chapter 15. The Egg Freezing Revolution? Gender, Education, and Reproductive Waithood in America Marcia C. Inhorn
Conclusion: Waithood in the Twenty-First Century Marcia C. Inhorn and Nancy J. Smith-Hefner
Index