1. Introduction / Maithreyi Krishnaraj -- 2. Motherhood, mothers, mothering : a multi-dimensional perspective / Maithreyi Krishnaraj -- 3. Motherhood in ancient India / Sukumari Bhattacharji -- 4. In search of the great Indian goddess : motherhood unbound / Kamala Ganesh -- 5. In the idiom of loss : ideology of motherhood in television serials--Mahabharata and Ramayana / Prabha Krishnan -- 6. Representing nationalism : ideology of motherhood in colonial Bengal / Jasodhara Bagchi -- 7. Mother, mother-community and mother-politics in Tamil Nadu / C.S. Lakshmi -- 8. The mother in Sane Guruji's Shyamchi Ai / Shanta Gokhale -- 9. Rites de passage of matrescence and social construction of motherhood among the Coorgs in south India / Veena Poonacha -- 10. Motherhood : different voices / Divya Pandey -- 11. Images of motherhood : the Hindu code bill discourse / Chitra Sinha.
This book presents an overview of the experiences and representations of motherhood in India from ancient to modern times. The argument is that the centrality of motherhood as an ideology in a woman's life is manufactured. It analyses different structures of society - language, religion, law.
This book presents an overview of the varied experiences and representations of motherhood in India from ancient to modern times. The thrust of the arguments made by the various contributors is that the centrality of motherhood as an ideology in a woman's life is manufactured. This is demonstrated by analysing various institutional structures of society -- language, religion, media, law and technology. The articles in this book are chronologically arranged, tracing the different stages that motherhood as a concept has traversed in India -- from goddess worship to nationalism, to being a vehicl
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