Name: Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India (Contemporary Ethnography) (en Inglés)
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Author: Pinto, Sarah
ISBN: 9780812245837

portada Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India (Contemporary Ethnography) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Sarah Pinto

Editorial

University of Pennsylvania Press

Año

2014

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

296

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.1 x 16.3 x 3.0 cm

Peso

0.61 kg.

ISBN13

9780812245837

Categorías

Estudios de genero de las mujeres
Antropología
Psicología anormal

Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India (Contemporary Ethnography) (en Inglés)

Sarah Pinto (Autor) · University of Pennsylvania Press · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India (Contemporary Ethnography) (en Inglés)"

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.