Making the Right Choice by Asha L. Abeyasekera

Items in order will be sent via Express post as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. The consequence of this collective investment is a feminist conundrum: agency does not denote the right to choose, but the duty to make the 'e right'e choice hence agency is experienced not as a sense of 'e freedom,'e but rather as a burden of responsibility. The book uncovers how 'e becoming modern'e 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 'e right'e choices.

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. Making the Right Choice 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.

Making the Right Choice by Asha L. Abeyasekera