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Womanhood in the making : domestic ritual and public culture in urban South India / Mary Elizabeth Hancock.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hancock, Mary Elizabeth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women, Tamil--Rites and ceremonies.
- Women, Tamil.
- Women, Tamil--Religion.
- Women, Tamil--Social conditions.
- Urban women--India--Madras.
- Urban women.
- Women in Hinduism--India--Madras.
- Women in Hinduism.
- Sex role--India--Chennai.
- Sex role.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- India--Chennai.
- Spatial behavior--India--Madras.
- Spatial behavior.
- Chennai (India)--Social life and customs.
- Chennai (India).
- Chennai (India)--Religious life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 286 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999.
- Contents:
- Prologue: Making and Unmaking the "Great Tradition" 3
- 1 Tradition, Modernity, and Their Gendered Places 13
- Domestic Ritual and Its Practice 17
- Feminisms 22
- The Public Culture of Domestic Ritual 25
- Part 2 Elite Cultures and Hybrid Modernities
- 2 Brokering Culture for the Nation 39
- Caste, Culture, and Modernity 39
- Smarta Brahmans in Chennai: Historical Roots of Contemporary "Middleness," 47
- Elite Identity and Postcolonial Cultural Politics 62
- Smartas As Cultural Brokers 64
- 3 The Moral Etiquette of Everyday Hinduism 73
- Everyday Hinduism 77
- The Domestic Interior 83
- Conclusion: Cultural Logics of Consumption 105
- Part 3 The World in the Home
- 4 The Ritualization of Womanhood 115
- Ritual Time 119
- The Life Course Imagined 122
- Negotiating Normativity 129
- Temporality and Womanhood 132
- Conclusion: Womanhood's Contradictions 137
- 5 The Uncertain Subject(s) of Womanhood 141
- The Goddess and Her Servants 143
- Improvised Lives 165
- Part 4 The Home in the World
- 6 Hinduism and the Spaces of Modernity 177
- Hindu Temples and the "Public Sphere," 178
- Temples As Contested Public Spaces 185
- Religion and Urban Life 192
- 7 Urban Places and Female Spaces 197
- Parvati 199
- Rajalakshmi 205
- 8 Hindu Culture for an Indian Nation 221
- Hindutva Goes South 221
- Consenting to What? 224
- Jan Kalyan As a Discourse of Hindu Nationalism 230
- Bringing the Nation Home 238
- 9 Tradition Revisited 243
- Navarattiri in a New Key 246
- The Contest 247
- Ethnographies and Feminisms 254.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813335833
- OCLC:
- 40076711
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