1st Edition
Fertility and Familial Power Relations Procreation in South India
By Minna Saavala
Copyright 2001
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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;
Biography
Authored by Saavala, Minna
'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
