Book Review: Moving for Marriage: Inequalities, Intimacy, and Women’s Lives in Rural North India by Shruti Chaudhry

Abstract

in the community to empower them to carry this traditional knowledge forward for their children. Making Livable Worlds is a poignant, necessary, and accessible read. Very few of us can expect to be unscathed by the “turbulent ongoingness” (p. 12) of intensifying social disinvestment and global ecological destruction. That said, we can try to prepare for the unknown challenges to come by humbling ourselves and learning from the examples set by Black Puerto Rican women and those who never had the privilege of another way. As she masterfully weaves together micro-level accounts with macrolevel context, Lloréns forms a powerful book that will enhance the syllabi and bibliographies of students and scholars interested in Gender and Family Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, Empire Studies, Decolonizing Methodologies, and Disaster Studies.