Library Catalogue
Family studies /
Family studies /
Edited by Anuja Agrawal.
- 1.
- xvi, 358 pages. 23 cm.
- Oxford studies contemporary indi OSCIS c .
Introduction, Anuja Agrawal
Part I: Critical Reorientations
1:Misconceiving the 'Indian Family': The Politics of Family-Based Discourse, Penny Vera-Sanso
2:The Insides and Outsides of Families: Social Reproduction in Neoliberal Times, Kumkum Sangari
Part II Beyond the 'Normative' Family
3:'To Restore the Comforts and Bliss of Married Life': Restitution of Conjugal Rights in Indian Law and Practice, Sylvia Vatuk
4:Making Families without Wives: Kinship in the Men's Rights Movement, Srimati Basu
5:Marital Status Discrimination in India: Prospects and Possibilities, Arijeet Ghosh and Diksha Sanyal
6:Familial Crisis and Marriage: The 'Navigational Capacity for Aspiration', Rama Srinivasan
Part III Trust, Betrayal, and Shifting Relations
7:Locating Friendship in Family: A Study of Indian Elites, Parul Bhandari
8:Spilt Blood: Kinship and Friendship in a Regime of Violence, Soibam Haripriya
9:Household Formation of Indian Migrant Parents in Australia, Supriya Singh
Part IV New Practices: Familial and Methodological
10:Digital Mothering in Middle-Class Families, Shriram Venkatraman
11:Displaying the 'Family' Online: Reflections on Syrian Christian Visual Life, Nidhin Donald
12:'Seeing' Family through Wedding Albums, Suryanandini Narain -
Index.
"This interdisciplinary volume on Family Studies, focussing on the Indian context, makes a case for why 'family' as an ideological construct and 'families' as a multitude of lived relationships should continue to be subjects of critical social scientific attention. The essays in the volume collectively demonstrate that in political, social and economic contexts such as found in India, family as well as families are neither simply a remnant of tradition nor a domain representing insulated 'private' lives. Rather, they consist of malleable yet overpowering structures, relationships and practices. Thus, while the 'family' is a crucial site of ideological and imaginative investments which play a vital role in reproducing and defining contemporary selves and societies, 'families' are responsive to and constrained by the complex political and economic dynamics in which they are embedded and enmeshed. Family relationships thus continue to occupy a central place in the imperative of survival and security, even as policy and legislative imperatives as well as reproductive and communication technologies play a crucial role in reshaping them. While reiterating the importance of building upon the impetus provided by gender and sexuality studies for a continued interest in family/families, the volume argues that Family Studies should embrace but not be subsumed by the questions that have been signposted by such scholarship. Critically interrogating the extant approaches to and concepts in the study of family, therefore the volume brings together a set of previously unpublished essays, authored by scholars from a range of background and varied orientations to focus upon issues which are central to making sense of family/families and the multiple contexts in which they are implicated in Indian society"--
9780198930693
2024943825
Family Studies.
Marriage and the Family.
Social Theory
Gender and Sexuality
306.850954 AGR
Introduction, Anuja Agrawal
Part I: Critical Reorientations
1:Misconceiving the 'Indian Family': The Politics of Family-Based Discourse, Penny Vera-Sanso
2:The Insides and Outsides of Families: Social Reproduction in Neoliberal Times, Kumkum Sangari
Part II Beyond the 'Normative' Family
3:'To Restore the Comforts and Bliss of Married Life': Restitution of Conjugal Rights in Indian Law and Practice, Sylvia Vatuk
4:Making Families without Wives: Kinship in the Men's Rights Movement, Srimati Basu
5:Marital Status Discrimination in India: Prospects and Possibilities, Arijeet Ghosh and Diksha Sanyal
6:Familial Crisis and Marriage: The 'Navigational Capacity for Aspiration', Rama Srinivasan
Part III Trust, Betrayal, and Shifting Relations
7:Locating Friendship in Family: A Study of Indian Elites, Parul Bhandari
8:Spilt Blood: Kinship and Friendship in a Regime of Violence, Soibam Haripriya
9:Household Formation of Indian Migrant Parents in Australia, Supriya Singh
Part IV New Practices: Familial and Methodological
10:Digital Mothering in Middle-Class Families, Shriram Venkatraman
11:Displaying the 'Family' Online: Reflections on Syrian Christian Visual Life, Nidhin Donald
12:'Seeing' Family through Wedding Albums, Suryanandini Narain -
Index.
"This interdisciplinary volume on Family Studies, focussing on the Indian context, makes a case for why 'family' as an ideological construct and 'families' as a multitude of lived relationships should continue to be subjects of critical social scientific attention. The essays in the volume collectively demonstrate that in political, social and economic contexts such as found in India, family as well as families are neither simply a remnant of tradition nor a domain representing insulated 'private' lives. Rather, they consist of malleable yet overpowering structures, relationships and practices. Thus, while the 'family' is a crucial site of ideological and imaginative investments which play a vital role in reproducing and defining contemporary selves and societies, 'families' are responsive to and constrained by the complex political and economic dynamics in which they are embedded and enmeshed. Family relationships thus continue to occupy a central place in the imperative of survival and security, even as policy and legislative imperatives as well as reproductive and communication technologies play a crucial role in reshaping them. While reiterating the importance of building upon the impetus provided by gender and sexuality studies for a continued interest in family/families, the volume argues that Family Studies should embrace but not be subsumed by the questions that have been signposted by such scholarship. Critically interrogating the extant approaches to and concepts in the study of family, therefore the volume brings together a set of previously unpublished essays, authored by scholars from a range of background and varied orientations to focus upon issues which are central to making sense of family/families and the multiple contexts in which they are implicated in Indian society"--
9780198930693
2024943825
Family Studies.
Marriage and the Family.
Social Theory
Gender and Sexuality
306.850954 AGR