maternity, globalization and middle-class identity in contemporary India
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Donner, Henrike
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- V IND 3 2008
- Thesaurus
- moederschap, bevallingen, huwelijken, globalisering, sociale klasse, India
- Description
- This book provides the ethnography of how middle-class women in India understand and experience economic change through transformations of family life. It explores their ideas 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 By focusing on maternity, the book explores subjective understandings of the way intimate relationships and the family are affected by India's liberalization policies. And by drawing attention to women's agency as wives, mothers and grandmothers within these new frameworks, 'Domestic Goddesses' discusses the experiences of different age groups affected by these changes.