A01=Henrike Donner
Author_Henrike Donner
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Bengali Cuisine
Bengali Hindu
Bengali Hindu Middle Class
Bengali Medium School
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Bengali Middle Class Women
Birthing Woman
Calcutta Middle Class Families
Calcutta Municipal Corporation
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Colonial Administration
Elective Caesarean
Elective Caesarean Sections
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ethnographic research India
families
family
gender roles transformation
globalisation effects on Indian families
high
High Caste Women
hindu
Hospital Births
Indian Middle Class Family
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Joint Family Life
kinship and modernity
Married Women
Medicalized Childbirth
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Middle Class Mothers
neoliberalism social impact
Non-vegetarian Diet
Pre-school Education
qualitative maternal studies
Tamil Nadu
Vegetarian Diet
women
women's agency South Asia
Young Men
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- ISBN 9780754649427
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Sep 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Dr Henrike Donner's research explores the interplay of gender, kinship and reproductive change in relation to class and post-liberalisation policies. Since 1995 she has conducted fieldwork in Calcutta (Kolkata), India, which has focused on the transformation of marriage and conjugal ideals, medicalised birth and maternal bodies, food consumption and the impact of privatised healthcare and schooling on middle-class lifestyles. Her work is concerned with socio-economic change as part of the process of globalisation and the way class is reproduced through institutions like marriage and the family and constituted through gendered, everyday practices. She has also published on urban space and fieldwork in the postcolonial city. Her ongoing research deals with the legacy of the militant Naxalite movement that emerged in urban West Bengal and is concerned with personal experiences of radical politics in the 1970s.
