Single Women in India: Stigma, Mental Health, and the Fight for Independence
The cultural narrative that accompanies singlehood in India equates singlehood with incompleteness, especially for women. The independence that single women are gaining comes to them alongside mental tearing practices such as shame, abandonment, and anxiety (Akhouri, Madiha, & Ansari, 2019; Prasad, 2022). The societal inability to comprehend a married woman as an ‘angry old maid’ […]
