Domestic Goddesses

Maternity, Globalization and Middle-Class Identity in Contemporary India

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2704337
AutoresHenrike Donner (0000-0001-8383-8201, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Páginas230
Fecha de publicación2016-05-23
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaDomestic Goddesses (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315577951
OpenAlexW4248929805
Open LibraryOL46560814M
ISBN9781315577951
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18

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. 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 the neo-liberal ideologies that accompany through an analysis of often competing ideologies and multiple practices. 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. Through a careful analysis of women's narratives, the domestic sphere is shown to represent the key site for the remaking of Indian middle-class citizens in a global world

China · Economic growth · Globalization · Ideology · Liberalization · Middle class · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Classical Antiquity Studies · Gender Studies · Historical and Architectural Studies · Social and Economic Development in India · South Asian Studies and Diaspora · Calcutta · Economic conditions · Economic history · Familles de la classe moyenne · India · Maternité · Mères · Middle class families · Motherhood · Mothers · Social conditions · Women