ReadingTheDots@social.vivaldi.net"Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage around the World" by Joanna Davidson (editor). My rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Published in 2022.
Book description: Women around the world are opting out of marriage. This book reveals the conditions that make this widespread phenomenon possible in places where marriage has long been obligatory. Each chapter invites readers into the lives of particular women and the changing circumstances in which these lives unfold - sometimes painfully, sometimes humorously, and always unexpectedly. Taken together, the essays in this volume prompt the following: Why is marriage so consistently disappointing for women? When the rewards of economic stability and the social status that marriage confers are troubled, does marriage offer women anything compelling at all?
I found this book well written, organized and interesting.