{"product_id":"making-the-right-choice","title":"Making the Right Choice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking the Right Choice\u003c\/i\u003e unravels the entangled relationship between marriage, morality, and the desire for modernity as it plays out in the context of middle-class status concerns and aspirations for upward social mobility within the Sinhala-Buddhist community in urban Sri Lanka. By focusing on individual life-histories spanning three generations, the book illuminates how narratives about a gendered self and narratives about modernity are mutually constituted and intrinsically tied to notions of agency. The book uncovers how \"becoming modern\" in urban Sri Lanka, rather than causing inter-generational conflict, is a collective aspiration realized through the efforts of bringing up educated and independent women capable of making \"right\" choices. The consequence of this collective investment is a feminist conundrum: agency does not denote the right to choose, but the duty to make the \"right\" choice; hence agency is experienced not as a sense of \"freedom,\" but rather as a burden of responsibility.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54219657609560,"sku":"9781978810310","price":132.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781978810310.jpg?v=1777199457","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/making-the-right-choice","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}