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Planning Families in Nepal - Global and Local Projects of Reproduction (Paperback)
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Planning Families in Nepal - Global and Local Projects of Reproduction (Paperback)
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Based on almost a decade of research in the Kathmandu Valley,
Planning Families in Nepal offers a compelling account of Hindu
Nepali women as they face conflicting global and local ideals
regarding family planning. Promoting a two-child norm, global
family planning programs have disseminated the slogan, ""A small
family is a happy family"", throughout the global South. Jan
Brunson examines how two generations of Hindu Nepali women
negotiate this global message of a two-child family and a more
local need to produce a son. Brunson explains that while women did
not prefer sons to daughters, they recognized that in the dominant
patrilocal family system, their daughters would eventually marry
and be lost to other households. As a result, despite recent
increases in educational and career opportunities for daughters,
mothers still hoped for a son who would bring a daughter-in-law
into the family and care for his aging parents. Mothers worried
about whether their modern, rebellious sons would fulfill their
filial duties, but ultimately those sons demonstrated an enduring
commitment to living with their aging parents. In the context of
rapid social change related to national politics as well as
globalization - a constant influx of new music, clothes, gadgets,
and even governments - the sons viewed the multigenerational family
as a refuge. Throughout Planning Families in Nepal, Brunson raises
important questions about the notion of ""planning"" when applied
to family formation, arguing that reproduction is better understood
as a set of local and global ideals that involve actors with
desires and actions with constraints, wrought with delays,
stalling, and improvisation.
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