Family and Gender
Changing Values in Germany and India
1st Edition
Published on 7. January 2003
Book
Hardback
360 pages
978-0-7619-9618-7 (ISBN)
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.
More details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
546 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7619-9618-7 (9780761996187)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Helmut Reifeld is at present the Representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in India. Formerly a research fellow with the German Historical Institute, London, and Bayreuth University, Germany, his co edited works include Pluralism and Equality and Women in Panchayati Raj.
Content
Family - Margrit PernauMargrit Pernau
A Gendering and Gendered Space
PART ONE: SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE FAMILY
Between the Ideal and the Real - Imtiaz Ahmad
Gender Relations within the Indian Joint Family
The Persisting Image versus Economic and Demographic Changes - Gunilla-Friederike Budde
The Three-generation Household in Europe
The Diverse Life-worlds of Indian Childhood - Vasanthi Raman
PART TWO: IMAGES AND SYMBOLIC PRACTICES
The Householder, grihastha, in the Mahabharata - Chaturvedi Badrinath
Motherhood and Female Identity - Margrit Pernau
Religious Advice Literature for Woman in German Catholicism and Indian Islam
Changing Masculinities in Central Europe - Ute Frevert
Duelling and its Aftermath
Virtous Mother, Virile Hero and Warrior Queen - Katharina Poggendorf-Kakar
The Conception of Gender and Family in Hindutava
PART THREE: THE FAMILY AND THE STATE
Gender and Family - Nadini Azad
State Intervention in India
State Interest in the Family - Helmut Reifield
Social Change and Social Policy in Germany
Gender in Governance - Shail Mayaram
Woman, Family and the Constitutional Panchayats of Contemporary India
PART FOUR: FAULT LINES
The Marginal Families - Nirmala Banerjee
Politics of Gender and Class - Samita Sen
Woman in Indian Industries
Private Crimes and Public Sanction - U Vindhya
Violence against Woman in the Family
A Gendering and Gendered Space
PART ONE: SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE FAMILY
Between the Ideal and the Real - Imtiaz Ahmad
Gender Relations within the Indian Joint Family
The Persisting Image versus Economic and Demographic Changes - Gunilla-Friederike Budde
The Three-generation Household in Europe
The Diverse Life-worlds of Indian Childhood - Vasanthi Raman
PART TWO: IMAGES AND SYMBOLIC PRACTICES
The Householder, grihastha, in the Mahabharata - Chaturvedi Badrinath
Motherhood and Female Identity - Margrit Pernau
Religious Advice Literature for Woman in German Catholicism and Indian Islam
Changing Masculinities in Central Europe - Ute Frevert
Duelling and its Aftermath
Virtous Mother, Virile Hero and Warrior Queen - Katharina Poggendorf-Kakar
The Conception of Gender and Family in Hindutava
PART THREE: THE FAMILY AND THE STATE
Gender and Family - Nadini Azad
State Intervention in India
State Interest in the Family - Helmut Reifield
Social Change and Social Policy in Germany
Gender in Governance - Shail Mayaram
Woman, Family and the Constitutional Panchayats of Contemporary India
PART FOUR: FAULT LINES
The Marginal Families - Nirmala Banerjee
Politics of Gender and Class - Samita Sen
Woman in Indian Industries
Private Crimes and Public Sanction - U Vindhya
Violence against Woman in the Family