Full Description
This Indian book brings together, for the first time, essays written by well-known scolars from a wide range of academic disciplines in the various aspects of family in India and Europe, with special reference to Germany.
Contents
Family - Margrit PernauMargrit PernauA Gendering and Gendered SpaceBetween the Ideal and the Real - Imtiaz AhmadGender Relations within the Indian Joint FamilyThe Persisting Image versus Economic and Demographic Changes - Gunilla-Friederike BuddeThe Three-generation Household in EuropeThe Diverse Life-worlds of Indian Childhood - Vasanthi RamanPART TWO: IMAGES AND SYMBOLIC PRACTICESThe Householder, grihastha, in the Mahabharata - Chaturvedi BadrinathMotherhood and Female Identity - Margrit PernauReligious Advice Literature for Woman in German Catholicism and Indian IslamChanging Masculinities in Central Europe - Ute FrevertDuelling and its AftermathVirtous Mother, Virile Hero and Warrior Queen - Katharina Poggendorf-KakarThe Conception of Gender and Family in HindutavaPART THREE: THE FAMILY AND THE STATEGender and Family - Nadini AzadState Intervention in IndiaState Interest in the Family - Helmut ReifieldSocial Change and Social Policy in GermanyGender in Governance - Shail MayaramWoman, Family and the Constitutional Panchayats of Contemporary IndiaPART FOUR: FAULT LINESThe Marginal Families - Nirmala Banerjee Politics of Gender and Class - Samita SenWoman in Indian IndustriesPrivate Crimes and Public Sanction - U VindhyaViolence against Woman in the Family