Fertility and Familial Power Relations: Procreation in South India / Edition 1

by Minna Saavala

Overview

Describes and analyses the corollaries of declining fertility in Southern India to discover how familial and gender relations are affected by the new situation of women giving birth only to 2-3 children.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780700714841
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/02/2001
Series:	Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Monograph
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Authored by Saavala, Minna

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Contextualizing Fertility; Chapter 2 Little Hungry Bellies: Children as Consumers; Chapter 3 An Ethnography of Fertility Practices; Chapter 4 Marital Relations: ‘It’s Dangerous to Love Your Husband!’; Chapter 5 The Familial Web of Domination and Challenge; Chapter 6 Gendered Children: Son for the Sake of the Name; Chapter 7 Conclusion: Delivering Lakshmi;

Editorial Reviews

'This study is conceptually sophisticated, descriptively "thick", methodologically self-reflexive, and, on top of that, engagingly written. It is highly recommended to anthropologists of reproduction, social demographers, and india specialists.' - Population and Development Review

'Saavala's work is also important for some of its inadvertent glimpses into the lives of rural women' - Alaka Malwade Basu

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