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: | English |
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Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
©2008.
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| Series: | Urban anthropology series.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | 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 their children's education, and addresses the impact that globalization is having on the new middle-classes in Asia more generally from a domestic perspective. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (215 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780754689577 0754689573 9786611798659 661179865X |
