Domestic goddesses : maternity, globalization and middle-class identity in contemporary India /
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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
©2008.
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Series: | Urban anthropology series.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Middle-class domesticities and maternities
- Of love, marriage and intimacy
- The place of birth
- Education and the making of middle-class mothers
- Motherhood, food and the body.