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,