Leela Gulati

Jasodhara Bagchi

Focusing on relationships between women of different generations in India, this book comprises of narratives demonstrating how each contributor established her own personhood through engagement with a wider kin group. Did the women portrayed in the narratives find space for themselves within orthodox structures? Or, were they so constrained by the social roles of the greatest importance to their families - as wives and mothers - that ending these roles meant some kind of death? How did their lives mould those of the narrators of these life histories? Showing that women need not always be seen as victims, these are stories of women who found strength, success and independence from the inspiring lives of their mothers and grandmothers.

Personal Narratives of Twelve Women

A Space of Her Own

Combines macro- and micro-level methodological techniques and supplements them with historical data from demographic records; of interest to demographers, economic planners, project formulators and those interested in women's studies, since it shows how great the effect of development projects is on women, even if they are not directly concerned by them.

Demographic and Socio-economic Impact of a Fisheries Development Project

Fisherwomen on the Kerala Coast

The author of this volume focuses on the women left behind by men migrating to West Asia for work. She discusses the experiences and problems these women face, as well as how social change occurs in a society when male members migrate. Profiles of ten women serve to highlight the various coping strategies incorporated in light of their differing social, economic and demographic circumstances.

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