Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index.
Middle-class domesticities and maternities -- Of love, marriage and intimacy -- The place of birth -- Education and the making of middle-class mothers -- Motherhood, food and the body.
0
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.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
MIL
179865
Domestic goddesses.
0754649423
Middle class families-- India-- Kolkata-- Economic conditions.
Middle class families-- India-- Kolkata-- Social conditions.