Domestic goddesses
Subtitle: maternity, globalization and middle-class identity in contemporary India
By: by Henrike Donner.
Series: Urban anthropology
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780754649427
Subjects: Motherhood -- India -- Calcutta; Mothers -- India -- Calcutta -- Social conditions; Mothers -- India -- Calcutta -- Economic conditions; Middle class families -- India -- Calcutta -- Social conditions; Middle class families -- India -- Calcutta -- Economic conditions; Calcutta (India) -- Social conditions; Calcutta (India) -- Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Middle-class domesticities and maternities; title: Of love, marriage and intimacy; title: The place of birth; title: Education and the making of middle-class mothers; title: Motherhood, food and the body.