Women, Family, and Child Care in India A World in Transition [Hardcover]

Documents the lives of 24 families in India over almost thirty years.This book follows the lives of 24 families in India over a nearly 30-year period, documenting a family and gender system based upon principles of male solidarity and dominance, sexual segregation, and age and gender hierarchies. It focuses upon women of different socio-economic groups- their early socialization, their arranged marriages and abrupt transition to a strange household, and their gradual acquisition of status, power, and personal satisfaction. The book also documents a family and gender system in transition, adapting to recent forces of urbanization and modernization.This book follows the lives of 24 families in India over a nearly 30-year period, documenting a family and gender system based upon principles of male solidarity and dominance, sexual segregation, and age and gender hierarchies. It focuses upon women of different socio-economic groups- their early socialization, their arranged marriages and abrupt transition to a strange household, and their gradual acquisition of status, power, and personal satisfaction. The book also documents a family and gender system in transition, adapting to recent forces of urbanization and modernization.This book presents an in-depth study of twenty-four Hindu families, of different caste and class groups, who live in a newly urbanized part of India. Beginning with a two-year study of family organization and child-rearing practices in the mid-1960s, the author follows the lives of 132 children and their extended families over nearly three decades. The book's main focus is women--the socialization of girls and the significance of women's roles through the life cycle in a society where the patrifocal extended family is predominant. The author examines the effects of caste and class on women's lives, and the effects of recent schooling and delayed marriage. Longitudinal research makes it possible to examine the impact of recent urbanization and molW