Women, Wellbeing, and the Ethics of Domesticity in an Odia Hindu Temple Town

• Main Author: Menon, Usha (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: India : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Anthropology.; Sociology.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; Social Sciences.; Gender Studies.; Regional and Cultural Studies.

This book is a detailed ethnography of traditional, predominantly upper-caste, sequestered Hindu women in the temple town of Bhubaneswar in Odisha, a state in eastern India.  It elaborates on a distinctive paradigm of domesticity and explicates a particular model of human wellbeing among this catego...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Women, Wellbeing and the Ethics of Domesticity: An Introduction
• Chapter 2: Entering the Temple Town of Bhubaneswar
• Chapter 3: Odia Hindu Ways of Thinking
• Chapter 4: Perceptions of Femaleness
• Chapter 5: Images of the Life Course
• Chapter 6: Managing the Household: Achieving Control, Being Productive, Distributing Resources
• Chapter 7: The Auspicious Heart: Dominance, Productivity, and Coherence
• Chapter 8: Managing Life and its Processes
• Chapter 9: The Temple Town as a Microcosm
• Chapter 10: Conclusions.