Sita's Daughters: Coming Out of Purdah

The Rajput Women of Khalapur Revisited

Leigh Minturn (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

392 Seiten

1993
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-508035-3 (ISBN)

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Leigh Minturn in this work recounts the dramatic changes in the role and status of Indian women in the Rajput caste of Khalapur that have taken place between 1955 and 1975. She explains the relationship of these changes to the decline in the observance of a complex system of customs collectively called purdah, which include the veiling of women's faces and bodies, subservient posture when speaking to men, separation of husbands and wives and deference of young wives to their mothers-in-law. The decline in the observance of the customs has both led to and been fostered by modernization. Unlike other studies of Indian women, Minturn preserves the individuality of her subjects.

Leigh Minturn is a professor of psychology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is co-author of two other books: Mothers of Six Cultures: Antecedents of Child Rearing (with W.W. Lambert, 1964) and The Rajputs of Khalapur, India (with J.T. Hitchcock, 1966).

PART I: Constancy and Change
1: The Khalapur Rajputs: 1955-1975
PART II: Two Villages: Parent's Haven, Husband's Prison
2: Marriage: From Daughter to Wife
3: Purdah: Respect-Avoidance, Dominance-Submission
4: Changing Times
PART III: Economy
5: Land and Dowry
6: Domestic Economy: Chores, Chuulus, Cash, and Clothing
PART IV: Religion
7: The Pantheon: One Divinity with Many Names
8: Ritual and Recreation
PART V: Women's Nature
9: Women's Nature: Honor and Shakti
10: Widows: Rand, Sati, Bhaktani
PART VI: Health and Education
11: Family Planning and Child Health
12: Socialization
13: Education
PART VII: Sum and Substance
14: Sita's Daughters: A Profile
15: Towards Equality

Mitarbeit	Stellvertretende Herausgeber: Swaran Kapoor
Zusatzinfo	halftones, line figures, tables
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 235 mm
Gewicht	564 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-508035-1 / 0195080351
ISBN-13	978-0-19-508035-3 / 9780195080353
Zustand	Neuware