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Daughters of Parvati
- Women and Madness in Contemporary India
Engelsk Paperback
Daughters of Parvati
- Women and Madness in Contemporary India
Engelsk Paperback

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In her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of viraha, the agony of separation from one's beloved, a form of love that is also intense suffering. These contradictory emotions reflect the overlapping dissolutions of love, family, and mental health explored by Sarah Pinto in this visceral ethnography. Daughters of Parvati centers on the lives of women in different settings of psychiatric care in northern India, particularly the contrasting environments of a private mental health clinic and a wing of a government hospital. Through an anthropological consideration of modern medicine in a nonwestern setting, Pinto challenges the dominant framework for addressing crises such as long-term involuntary commitment, poor treatment in homes, scarcity of licensed practitioners, heavy use of pharmaceuticals, and the ways psychiatry may reproduce constraining social conditions. Inflected by the author's own experience of separation and single motherhood during her fieldwork, Daughters of Parvati urges us to think about the ways women bear the consequences of the vulnerabilities of love and family in their minds, bodies, and social worlds.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781512823745
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1512823740
Udg. Dato:
12 jul 2022
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
151mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Oplagsdato:
12 jul 2022
Forfatter(e):
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