By Sharon Ee Ling Quah
This publication offers a sociological account on marital dissolution that engages and extends theorisations on individualisation and the modern enterprise of non-public relationships to debate how the event of divorce may not be all debilitating yet to the contrary, may provide possibilities for productiveness, self-responsibility and courting formation. utilizing Singaporean divorcees’ narrative money owed, the e-book explores how divorcees form and build what the writer refers to as, a divorce biography, to finish their unsatisfying marriages, focus on the problem, negotiate the linked hazards, organise post-divorce own groups and make destiny plans. It uncovers how divorcees navigate their divorce biographies in the financial, coverage and social context they're situated in and examines the stipulations that facilitate or prevent the pursuit of productiveness in numerous features in their post-divorce lives. faraway from a typical tale of divorce, this booklet provides the range and complexity of Singaporean divorce biographies. The study demanding situations adverse discourses linked to divorce and provides a extra nuanced standpoint through discussing either the precarious and efficient points of the event. extra importantly, it offers a serious dialogue at the restricted definition of kinfolk widespread in Singaporean society, and exhibits how post-divorce relations lifestyles and practices proceed to thrive regardless of the rupture of marriage.
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