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Family and gender : changing values in Germany and India / editors Margrit Pernau, Imtiaz Ahmad, and Helmut Reifeld.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--India--Congresses.
- Families.
- Families--Germany--Congresses.
- Sex role--India--Congresses.
- Sex role.
- Sex role--Germany--Congresses.
- Germany.
- India.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 360 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2003.
- Summary:
- This Indian book brings together, for the first time, essays written by well-known scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines in the various aspects of family in India and Europe, with special reference to Germany. Contents: Family/Part One: Social History of the Family/Between the Ideal and the Real/The Persisting Images versus Economic and Demographic Changes/The Diverse Life-world of Indian Childhood/Part Two: Images and Symbolic Practices/The Householder, grihastha, in the Mahabharata/Motherhood and Female Identity/Changing Masculinities in Central Europe/Virtous Mother, Virile Hero and Warrior Queen/Part Three: The Family and the State/Gender and Family/State Interest in the Family/Gender in Governance/Part Four: Fault Lines/The Marginal Families/Politics of Gender and Class/Private Crimes and Public Sanction
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0761996184
- 0761996192
- 8178291088
- OCLC:
- 49225920
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