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Women, Family, and Child Care in India - A World in Transition (Hardcover, New)
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Women, Family, and Child Care in India - A World in Transition (Hardcover, New)
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This book presents an in-depth study of twenty-four Hindu families,
of different caste and class groups, who live in a newly urbanized
part of India. Beginning with a two-year study of family
organization and child-rearing practices in the mid-1960s, the
author follows the lives of 132 children and their extended
families over nearly three decades. The book's main focus is
women--the socialization of girls and the significance of women's
roles through the life cycle in a society where the patrifocal
extended family is predominant. The author examines the effects of
caste and class on women's lives, and the effects of recent
schooling and delayed marriage. Longitudinal research makes it
possible to examine the impact of recent urbanization and
modernization on groups of contemporary Indian women. The voices
and changing perspectives of these women are captured in a series
of intergenerational interviews that imply further change for
Indian systems of family and gender. Students and researchers in
the fields of psychology, anthropology, cultural studies, and
women's studies will find this book to be as intriguing as it is
essential.
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