ABSTRACT
This book has employed a contrastive mode of analysis to examine whether certain types of marriages are more democratic for women and whether the support systems that married women are entitled to vary across these marriages. Alongside, it has delineated how notions and ideologies of love may vary across conjugal arrangements. My hope is that the ethnographic findings that are summarized in this conclusion will enable scholars, activists and policy makers to initiate theoretical debate and reform in furthering democracy in intimate relationships.
