White Saris and Sweet Mangoes
Title | White Saris and Sweet Mangoes PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Lamb |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Aged |
ISBN | 0520220005 |
By examining both gender and aging in this ethnography of an Indian village, Sarah Lamb forces a re-examination of major debates in feminist anthropology and contributes to the small but growing literature on aging in contemporary culture.
White Saris and Sweet Mangoes
Title | White Saris and Sweet Mangoes PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Lamb |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2000-06-22 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0520220013 |
By examining both gender and aging in this ethnography of an Indian village, Sarah Lamb forces a re-examination of major debates in feminist anthropology and contributes to the small but growing literature on aging in contemporary culture.
Aging and the Indian Diaspora
Title | Aging and the Indian Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah E. Lamb |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 363 |
Release | 2009-07-06 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0253003601 |
The proliferation of old age homes and increasing numbers of elderly living alone are startling new phenomena in India. These trends are related to extensive overseas migration and the transnational dispersal of families. In this moving and insightful account, Sarah Lamb shows that older persons are innovative agents in the processes of social-cultural change. Lamb's study probes debates and cultural assumptions in both India and the United States regarding how best to age; the proper social-moral relationship among individuals, genders, families, the market, and the state; and ways of finding meaning in the human life course.
Being Single in India
Title | Being Single in India PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Lamb |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2022-06-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520389425 |
Today, the majority of the world's population lives in a country with falling marriage rates, a phenomenon with profound impacts on women, gender, and sexuality. In this exceptionally crafted ethnography, Sarah Lamb probes the gendered trend of single women in India, examining what makes living outside of marriage for women increasingly possible and yet incredibly challenging. Featuring the stories of never-married women as young as 35 and as old as 92, this book offers a remarkable portrait of a way of life experienced by women across class and caste divides. For women in India, complex social-cultural and political-economic contexts are foundational to their lives and decisions, and remaining unmarried is often an unintended consequence of other pressing life priorities. Arguing that never-married women are able to illuminate their society's broader social-cultural values, Lamb offers a new and startling look at prevailing systems in India today. "This pathbreaking book offers a vital analysis of the rising but unrecognized category of single women in a marriage-minded society such as India. Through beautifully rendered and diverse stories, Sarah Lamb challenges conventional wisdom." -MARCIA C. INHORN, William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, Yale University "For fans of Lamb's evocative narratives on Bengali widows, her new book provides another rich look at the negative space of marriage: the rare demographic of single women in Bengal across class and caste." -SRIMATI BASU, author of The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India "This lively ethnographic account makes several key contributions to feminist anthropological appraisals of marriage as an institution. Lamb renders a compelling, detailed, and sensitive portrait of compulsory heterosexuality and patriliny as seen from the margins." -LUCINDA RAMBERG, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Cornell University.
Disrupted Lives
Title | Disrupted Lives PDF eBook |
Author | Gaylene Becker |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0520209141 |
Our lives are full of disruptions, from the minor - a flat tire, an unexpected phone call - to the fateful - a diagnosis of infertility, an illness, the death of a loved one. And the ways in which we come to understand and cope with these disruptions can say as much about our cultural heritage as they say about us as individuals. In the first book to examine disruption in American life from a cultural rather than a psychological perspective, Gay Becker follows hundreds of people to find out what they do after something unexpected occurs. Starting with bodily distress, she shows how individuals recount experiences of disruption metaphorically, drawing on important cultural themes to help them reestablish order and continuity in their lives.
Inequalities of Aging
Title | Inequalities of Aging PDF eBook |
Author | Elana D. Buch |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2018-08-28 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1479807176 |
"Elana D. Buch's "Inequalities of Aging: Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care" focuses on the topic of American home care and explores various contradictions and points of tension within the industry. It also raises awareness of the problematic inequality that exists in the American home care industry and argues for the creation of a more sustainable system."--
White Saris and Sweet Mangoes
Title | White Saris and Sweet Mangoes PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Lamb |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2000-06-22 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 9780520220010 |
By examining both gender and aging in this ethnography of an Indian village, Sarah Lamb forces a re-examination of major debates in feminist anthropology and contributes to the small but growing literature on aging in contemporary culture.