The Spatial Politics of Singlehood

What does it mean to build an independent life in a city where marriage remains the norm? Drawing on qualitative research with unmarried middle-class women in Delhi, Lucie Bernroider explores how they negotiate housing, mobility, and belonging amid rapid urban transformation. She reveals how securitisation and privatisation intersect with bourgeois family values to shape gendered access to urban space.Taking singlehood as a vantage point, the volume offers a critical account of the gendered tensions through which urban re-figuration unfolds.