Overview
- It presents a cultural model of subjective or psychological wellbeing
- It is a fine-grained analysis of a particular paradigm of domesticity
- It examines the degree to which individual liberty and gender equality—the values espoused by liberal feminism—are universally relevant
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About the author
Usha Menon received her Ph. D. (with Honors) in Human Development from the University of Chicago in 1995. She has done fieldwork in the temple town of Bhubaneswar in Odisha, as well as in the northern Indian city of Meerut. She has written extensively on different aspects of Hindu society and civilization, in particular on goddess worship, family dynamics, gender relations, Hindu morality, Hindu women and liberal feminism, and Hindu–Muslim religious violence.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women, Wellbeing, and the Ethics of Domesticity in an Odia Hindu Temple Town
Authors: Usha Menon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0885-3
Publisher: Springer New Delhi
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer India 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-81-322-0884-6Published: 20 March 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-1736-7Published: 07 March 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-0885-3Published: 01 March 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 244
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Anthropology, Gender Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies