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Womanhood In The Making

Domestic Ritual And Public Culture In Urban South India
By:Mary Hancock
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Print ISBN:9780367239572
eText ISBN:9780429982668
Edition:1
Copyright:1999
Format:Reflowable

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Womanhood in the Making is an ethnographic study of Brahman women's ritual practice that focuses on relations between religious practice, class and caste inequalities, and nationalist discourses. Using analyses of both domestic ritual and women's personal narratives, the author investigates the spaces of female agency that ritual practice affords,