Bibframe Work

Introduction. Waithood : gender, education, and global delays in marriage and childbearing / Nancy J. Smith-Hefner and Marcia C. Inhorn

Youth, economics, and the politics of waithood : the struggle for dignity in the Middle East and North Africa / Diane Singerman

"Trusting is a dicey affair" : Muslim youth, gender relations, and future-making in southwestern Uganda / Dorothea E. Schulz

Waiting at the fada : young men, "tea circles," and delayed adulthood in Niger / Adeline Masquelier

Emergent waithood : institutions and marriage delays among Mayan women in Guatemala / Nicole S. Berry

Active waithood : youthmen, fatherhood, and men's educational aspirations in Sierra Leone / Kristen E. McLean

"Giving oneself time" : marriage and motherhood in urban Rwanda / Aalyia Feroz Ali Sadruddin

Tactics of marriage delay in China : education, rural-to-urban migration, and "leftover women" / Zachary M. Howlett

Too educated to marry? Muslim women and extended singlehood in Indonesia / Nancy J. Smith-Hefner

Conjugal conundrums : conversion and marriage delay in the contemporary Caribbean / Brendan Jamal Thornton

Between cynicism and idealism : voluntary waithood in Iran / Mehrdad Babadi

Refusing to settle : migration among single professional women in Jordan / Fida Adely

Never-married women in India : gendered life courses, desires, and identities in flux / Sarah Lamb

Blamed for delay : French norms and practices of ART in the context of increasing age-related female infertility / Manon Vialle

Waiting too long to mother : involuntary childlessness and assisted reproduction in contemporary Spain / Beatriz San Román

The egg freezing revolution? Gender, education, and reproductive waithood in the United States / Marcia C. Inhorn

Conclusion. Waithood in the twenty-first century / Marcia C. Inhorn and Nancy J. Smith-Hefner