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Domestic Goddesses - Maternity, Globalization and Middle-class Identity in Contemporary India (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Domestic Goddesses - Maternity, Globalization and Middle-class Identity in Contemporary India (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Urban Anthropology
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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 competing ideologies and
multiple practices. And by drawing attention to women's agency as
wives, mothers and grandmothers within these new frameworks,
Domestic Goddesses discusses the experiences of different age
groups affected by these changes. Through a careful analysis of
women's narratives, the domestic sphere is shown to represent the
key site for the remaking of Indian middle-class citizens in a
global world.
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