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Domestic Goddesses: Maternity, Globalization and Middle-class Identity in Contemporary India (Urban Anthropology)
Henrike Donner
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Description for Domestic Goddesses: Maternity, Globalization and Middle-class Identity in Contemporary India (Urban Anthropology)
hardcover. Based on fieldwork in Calcutta, this book provides the ethnography of how middle-class women in India understand and experience economic change through transformations of family life. It explores their ideas, practices and experiences of marriage, childbirth, reproductive change and their children's education. Series Editor(s): Pardo, Italo; Prato, Dr. Giuliana B. Series: Urban Anthropology. Num Pages: 230 pages, includes 1 map & 4 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 560.
Based on extensive fieldwork in Calcutta, this book provides the first ethnography of how middle-class women in India understand and experience economic change through transformations of family life. It explores their ideas, practices and experiences of marriage, childbirth, reproductive change and their children's education, and addresses the impact that globalization is having on the new middle classes in Asia more generally from a domestic perspective. By focusing on maternity, the book explores subjective understandings of the way intimate relationships and the family are affected by India's liberalization policies and the neo-liberal ideologies that accompany through an analysis of often ... Read more
Based on extensive fieldwork in Calcutta, this book provides the first ethnography of how middle-class women in India understand and experience economic change through transformations of family life. It explores their ideas, practices and experiences of marriage, childbirth, reproductive change and their children's education, and addresses the impact that globalization is having on the new middle classes in Asia more generally from a domestic perspective. By focusing on maternity, the book explores subjective understandings of the way intimate relationships and the family are affected by India's liberalization policies and the neo-liberal ideologies that accompany through an analysis of often ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
Series
Urban Anthropology
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780754649427
SKU
V9780754649427
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About Henrike Donner
Dr Henrike Donner's research explores the interplay of gender, kinship and reproductive change in relation to class and post-liberalisation policies. Since 1995 she has conducted fieldwork in Calcutta (Kolkata), India, which has focused on the transformation of marriage and conjugal ideals, medicalised birth and maternal bodies, food consumption and the impact of privatised healthcare and schooling on middle-class lifestyles. Her ... Read more
Reviews for Domestic Goddesses: Maternity, Globalization and Middle-class Identity in Contemporary India (Urban Anthropology)
'All in all, Domestic Goddesses provides new insights into the effects of globalization on Indian society with its detailed analysis of changes in middle-class women's practices and domestic lives in Calcutta. As such Domestic Goddesses fills a lacuna and contributes significantly to the anthropology of South Asia.' Women's Studies 'For American scholars of global feminism, this book could be ... Read more