hypergamy

Currie says that a good majority of the men he converses with feel that many women today are just way too promiscuous, way too hypergamous, and way too "bossy" to be viewed as "wife material" in their minds.

The low rate of interracial marriages and marriage between slaves and free colored people coupled with the significant number of pardos (mulattoes) are some indications of the frequency of hypergamous concubinage and/or the sexual use and abuse of nonwhite women by white men (Martinez Alier 1974: 82ff.).

Central to the play's message that people should keep to their proper stations is the thwarting of Asia's hypergamous aspirations.

(28.) Like Anne McClintock, I am interested in the "difficult question of what kind of agency is possible in situations of extreme social inequality" (140), and, especially, in how literary texts written by subaltern authors like McKay or Hannah Cullwick (the cross-dressing and hypergamous English scullery maid whom McClintock studies), and subaltern literary characters like The Apple-Woman and the Constab, express "a sustained determination to negotiate power within circumstances of great limitations."

Attractive physical features complement the traditionally determined match which while being endogamous with regard to caste, can also be hypergamous in the case of an intercaste marriage.