No One Will Let Her Live : Women's Struggle for Well-Being in a Delhi Slum / Claire Snell-Rood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snell-Rood, Claire, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Well-being--India--Delhi.

Well-being.

Poor women--Health and hygiene--India--Delhi.

Poor women.

Poor women--India--Delhi--Social conditions.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The inequalities that structure relationships in Delhi's urban slums have left the health of women living there chronically vulnerable. Yet for women living in slums, there is no other option than to depend on someone. Based on fourteen months of intensive fieldwork with ten families in a Delhi slum, No One Will Let Her Live argues that women rely on moral strategies to confront the poverty and unstable relationships that threaten their well-being. Claire Snell-Rood breaks new ground by delineating the complex ways in which women set boundaries, maintain their independence, and develop a nuanced sense of selfhood that draws on endurance, asceticism, mobility, and citizenship.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Translation and Transliteration

Introduction: Well-Being and the Self

1. "You Should Live for Others": Tensely Sustaining Families and Selves

2. Let the Dirtiness Go: Managing Relations with Neighbors to Protect the Self

3. "Getting Ahead" as Moral Citizenship in the Face of Demolition

4. To Know the Field: Shaping the Slum Environment and Cultivating the Self

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520284821

0520284828

OCLC:

910159987