| Interrogating Motherhood Contributor(s): Bagchi, Jasodhara (Author) |
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ISBN: 9381345171 ISBN-13: 9789381345177 Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd OUR PRICE: $18.04 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2017 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Series: Theorizing Feminism |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.35 lbs) 140 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Explores the many insights of Indian and western feminists analyses of motherhood both as ideology and as practice. Interrogating Motherhood, the fourth title in the Theorizing Feminism Series, reveals that an understanding of motherhood is vitally important to understanding Indian society. The ideas and practice of motherhood changed once India became a part of a global capitalist system. The book analyses motherhood both as ideology and as practice, and the complexities between motherhood and mothering where the concepts are glorified but the women remain subordinate. It further explores Indian and western feminists' insights, examines the significance of mother goddesses, discusses regulations on motherhood in the wake of nation-building, and reveals the vulnerability of motherhood to the coercion of invasive technology and pressures of patriarchy where a woman must not only be a mother but also the mother of a son.
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Contributor Bio(s): Bagchi, Jasodhara: - Jasodhara Bagchi was an independent scholar, formerly Chairperson of the West Bengal Commission for Women and Director, School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University; also Professor of English, Jadavpur University; considered to be a pioneering scholar of women's studies. Among her books with Stree: Loved and Unloved: The Girl Child in the Family (1997); with Subhoranjan Dasgupta, The Trauma and the Triumph: Gender and Partition in the Easter Region, 2 vols (2006, 2009); Karmakshetre Jouno Henasthar Mokabilye Ain Byabohaer Nirdeshika (How to handle sexual harassment in the workplace); with SAGE: Changing Status of Women in West Bengal, 1970-2000: The Challenges Ahead, 2005. |
