Motherhood in India (eBook, ePUB)

Glorification without Empowerment?
Redaktion: Krishnaraj, Maithreyi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents an overview of the experiences and representations of motherhood in India from ancient to modern times. The argument is that the centrality of motherhood as an ideology in a woman's life is manufactured. It analyses different structures of society - language, religion, law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136517792
• Artikelnr.: 38275229

Autorenporträt

Maithreyi Krishnaraj was formerly Director, Research Centre for Women¿s Studies, SNDT Women¿s University, Mumbai. With her background in three disciplines ¿ economics, sociology and education ¿ she did interdisciplinary work in women's studies and is considered a pioneer in developing the subject. She has published widely in national and international journals and taught as Senior Professor in many universities in India and abroad. Some of her major publications are Real Lives and Mythic Models (2000), Between State and Markets (2007), Gender, Food Security and Rural Livelihoods (2008) and Women Farmers of India (2008).