Womanhood In The Making

Womanhood In The Making PDF Author: Mary Hancock
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429971583
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 303

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Book Description
Womanhood in the Making is an ethnographic study of Brahman women's ritual practice that focuses on relations between religious practice, class and caste inequalities, and nationalist discourses. Using analyses of both domestic ritual and women's personal narratives, the author investigates the spaces of female agency that ritual practice affords,