Mukta Sharangpani
Biographic Data
| ID | 6055539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mukta Sharangpani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mukta |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharangpani |
| SIGNATURE | SHARANGPANI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Santa Clara University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Karva Chauth Travels
This essay is a rumination on food, family and feminism. It investigates the enduring popularity of Karva Chauth among North Indian, dominant caste, married, working women in the San Francisco Bay Area. It highlights the significance of the fasting–feasting ritual in a range of self-shaping projects. By excavating the meanings embedded in food in women’s worlds, it privileges gendered experiential knowledge and forwards and repositions a nuanced …
The Safe Natal Home and Other Myths
This article focuses on childhood-based sibling violence against adolescent girls in urban India and highlights the ways in which culture shapes, morphs, disguises and elides particular forms of kin-based aggression and presents it as protection, love and routine. It extends the study of familial violence by highlighting women's narratives about violence perpetrated by adolescent brothers or brother-like figures. Contrary to an imagined childhood…
Browsing for Bridegrooms
This article demonstrates how a traditional cultural practice such as the arranged marriage system is given a modern meaning by young women in urban India. Through young women’s narratives on love, marriage and careers, it highlights how neo-liberalisation and its resultant culture of consumerism has offered them a vocabulary through which they articulate and resolve the continuing tension between traditional notions of family-making and modern d…
Browsing for Bridegrooms
This article demonstrates how a traditional cultural practice such as the arranged marriage system is given a modern meaning by young women in urban India. Through young women’s narratives on love, marriage and careers, it highlights how neo-liberalisation and its resultant culture of consumerism has offered them a vocabulary through which they articulate and resolve the continuing tension between traditional notions of family-making and modern d…
Browsing for Bridegrooms
This article demonstrates how a traditional cultural practice such as the arranged marriage system is given a modern meaning by young women in urban India. Through young women’s narratives on love, marriage and careers, it highlights how neo-liberalisation and its resultant culture of consumerism has offered them a vocabulary through which they articulate and resolve the continuing tension between traditional notions of family-making and modern d…
The Safe Natal Home and Other Myths
This article focuses on childhood-based sibling violence against adolescent girls in urban India and highlights the ways in which culture shapes, morphs, disguises and elides particular forms of kin-based aggression and presents it as protection, love and routine. It extends the study of familial violence by highlighting women's narratives about violence perpetrated by adolescent brothers or brother-like figures. Contrary to an imagined childhood…
Karva Chauth Travels
This essay is a rumination on food, family and feminism. It investigates the enduring popularity of Karva Chauth among North Indian, dominant caste, married, working women in the San Francisco Bay Area. It highlights the significance of the fasting–feasting ritual in a range of self-shaping projects. By excavating the meanings embedded in food in women’s worlds, it privileges gendered experiential knowledge and forwards and repositions a nuanced …
Art (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Complicity (1 work) · Consumerism (1 work) · Criminology (1 work) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (1 work)