Details

Subject(s)

• Middle class families—India—Calcutta—Economic conditions [Browse]
• Middle class families—India—Calcutta—Social conditions [Browse]
• Motherhood—India—Calcutta [Browse]
• Mothers—India—Calcutta—Economic conditions [Browse]
• Mothers—India—Calcutta—Social conditions [Browse]
• Calcutta (India)—Economic conditions [Browse]
• Calcutta (India)—Social conditions [Browse]

Series

Urban anthropology series. [More in this series]

Summary note

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.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-202) and index.

Source of description

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Language note

English

Contents

Cover; Contents; List of Map and Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Middle-class Domesticities and Maternities; 2 Of Love, Marriage and Intimacy; 3 The Place of Birth; 4 Education and the Making of Middle-class Mothers; 5 Motherhood, Food and the Body; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

ISBN

• 1-315-57795-X
• 1-317-14848-7
• 1-317-14847-9
• 1-281-79865-7
• 9786611798659
• 0-7546-8957-3

OCLC

• 323304498
• 1027164648
• 1332519997

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