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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Donner, Henrike
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008.
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.