Karva Chauth Travels
Fasting, Feasting and Everything in Between
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11016306 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mukta Sharangpani (Santa Clara University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 779-799 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Asia Journal of South Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0085-6401 • E-ISSN: 1479-0270 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00856401.2022.2103278 |
| OpenAlex | W4297826421 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
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 understanding of agency, power and self-expression in the formation of diasporic identities
Art · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |