Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Contemporary India: An Ethnographic Study of Globalization, Disorder, and the Body

This paper provides the first econometric analysis of rationalizations of virginity loss in terms of love. Data from the UK National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles are used to estimate logit equations to predict the claim that virginity loss was occasioned by being in love. The sample consists of 2,269 males and 1,476 females between the ages of 16 and 59. In economic terms, a dichotomy is found in terms of male and female virginity loss, such that to a degree it is possible to infer that sex is for males more of a consumption good, whilst for females it is more of a capital good.

Surrender Value of Capital Assets: The Economics of Strategic Virginity Loss

L'A. tente de mettre en evidence la complexite des representations, jugements, et points de vue que l'on peut emettre sur le marriage arrange en Inde. Donnant un apercu des differents contextes et des differents discours sur la preference accordee au mariage arrange, dans le respect de la tradition, ou au mariage d'amour, elle examine notamment comment ces questions ont ete abordees dans la litterature indienne. Elle suggere que, meme si les relations entre generations ont change dans la societe contemporaine, la question du mariage et de la liberte de la femme demeure une question d'actualite, mais ambigue.

D. Markova

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Love marriage and arranged marriage in India