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Women, Wellbeing, and the Ethics of Domesticity in an Odia Hindu Temple Town
Usha Menon
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Hardcover. This book offers a detailed ethnography of traditional, predominantly upper-caste, sequestered Hindu women in the south-eastern Indian temple town of Bhubaneswar. Offering a clear portrait of these women, it interprets, rather than translates, their lives. Num Pages: 263 pages, 9 black & white illustrations, 4 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSJ1; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 551.
This book is a detailed ethnography of traditional, predominantly upper-caste, sequestered Hindu women in the temple town of Bhubaneswar in Odisha, a state in eastern India. It elaborates on a distinctive paradigm of domesticity and explicates a particular model of human wellbeing among this category. Part of the growing literature in “third wave” or “multicultural feminism”, it seeks to broaden the parameters of feminist discourse by going beyond questions of individual liberty or gender equality to examine the potential for female empowerment that exists in the context of these women’s lives. Its aims are twofold: first, to represent these women ... Read more
This book is a detailed ethnography of traditional, predominantly upper-caste, sequestered Hindu women in the temple town of Bhubaneswar in Odisha, a state in eastern India. It elaborates on a distinctive paradigm of domesticity and explicates a particular model of human wellbeing among this category. Part of the growing literature in “third wave” or “multicultural feminism”, it seeks to broaden the parameters of feminist discourse by going beyond questions of individual liberty or gender equality to examine the potential for female empowerment that exists in the context of these women’s lives. Its aims are twofold: first, to represent these women ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
New Delhi, India
ISBN
9788132208846
SKU
V9788132208846
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99-15
About Usha Menon
Usha Menon received her Ph. D. (with Honors) in Human Development from the University of Chicago in 1995. She has done fieldwork in the temple town of Bhubaneswar in Odisha, as well as in the northern Indian city of Meerut. She has written extensively on different aspects of Hindu society and civilization, in particular on goddess worship, family dynamics, gender ... Read more
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