Domestic goddesses : maternity, globalization and middle-class identity in contemporary India / Henrike Donner.

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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Main Author: Donner, Henrike
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008.
Series:Urban anthropology series.
Subjects:
Motherhood > India > Kolkata.
Mothers > India > Kolkata > Social conditions.
Mothers > India > Kolkata > Economic conditions.
Middle class families > India > Kolkata > Social conditions.
Middle class families > India > Kolkata > Economic conditions.
Kolkata (India) > Social conditions.
Kolkata (India) > Economic conditions.
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