Domestic goddesses : maternity, globalization and middle-class identity in contemporary India / Henrike Donner.

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...

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Main Author: Donner, Henrike
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008.
Series:Urban anthropology series.
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