Domestic goddesses : maternity, globalization and middle-class identity in contemporary India

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.
Subjects:
Motherhood > India > Kolkata.
Mothers > India > Kolkata > Social conditions.
Mothers > India > Kolkata > Economic conditions.
Middle class families > India > Kolkata > Social conditions.
Middle class families > India > Kolkata > Economic conditions.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Parenting > Motherhood.
Economic history
Motherhood
Mothers > Economic conditions
Mothers > Social conditions
Social conditions
Moederschap.
Middenklassen.
Internationalisatie.
Kolkata (India) > Social conditions.
Kolkata (India) > Economic conditions.
India > Kolkata
India.
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (215 pages) : illustrations, maps
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index.
ISBN:9780754689577
0754689573
9786611798659
661179865X
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
Action Note:digitized

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