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This book analyses the dynamics of the development of family
structure in India over the past few decades. It captures the
diversities and challenges of contemporary families and provides a
culture and region-specific overview of how families adapt and
change generationally. The book explores the paradigms of
understanding family life in India through illustrations which
trace patterns of family formations in the context of large-scale
social, economic and media-driven changes. Besides discussing the
ongoing debates on the sociology of family, the chapters in this
volume also look at diverse families experiencing poverty, conflict
and displacement and demystifies families with members having a
disability or non-normative sexual orientation. The book will be
useful to students and researchers of various disciplines, such as
sociology, social work, family studies, women’s studies and
anthropology.
This book analyses the dynamics of the development of family
structure in India over the past few decades. It captures the
diversities and challenges of contemporary families and provides a
culture and region-specific overview of how families adapt and
change generationally. The book explores the paradigms of
understanding family life in India through illustrations which
trace patterns of family formations in the context of large-scale
social, economic and media-driven changes. Besides discussing the
ongoing debates on the sociology of family, the chapters in this
volume also look at diverse families experiencing poverty, conflict
and displacement and demystifies families with members having a
disability or non-normative sexual orientation. The book will be
useful to students and researchers of various disciplines, such as
sociology, social work, family studies, women's studies and
anthropology.
Against All Odds: Psychosocial Distress and Healing among Women
uses vivid ethnographic narratives to study linkages between
socio-economic conditions and the mental health of women living in
low-income neighbourhoods of big cities. After presenting
anthropological insights related to the understanding of madness,
mental health and mental illness, the author illustrates how the
social position of women and factors inherent in urbanism have an
impact on the level of psychosocial distress they experience. The
book further explores the increasing medicalization of social
problems whereby instead of actual problems being addressed, women
get 'treated'. Nayar also takes stock of the different kinds of
local 'healing' processes sought by women, and examines how the
women's movement and cultural ways of healing have helped women in
reducing the distress and violence in their everyday lives. Drawing
from the author's ethnographic research in Delhi, the book offers a
vital exploration of the interactions between individuals and
systems, and argues that an equitable society is what is required
to reduce psychosocial distress. This timely book that cuts across
disciplinary locations will be of interest to scholars of gender
studies, psychology and psychotherapy, social work and
anthropology.
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