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OverviewCosmopolitan Maternalisms presents an in-depth, gendered, and qualitative analysis of contemporary maternity and mothering practices among a South Asian immigrant community. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Bittiandra Chand SomaiahPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9781487507091ISBN 10: 1487507097 Pages: 360 Publication Date: 15 March 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Images Acknowledgments Epigraph Introduction: “Life out of Coorg Makes Kids Cosmopolitan” Some Key Terms Who Are the Coorgs? Why the Coorgs? Methodology and Methods Research Sites Overview of the Chapters Chapter 1 Mapping Kodavathee Immigrant Mothering in Modernity Feminist Reconstructions of Motherhood Literature on Mothering in Modernity Cultural Contradictions of Intensive Motherhood and New Momism Risk, Responsibility, and Consumption New Maternalisms Immigrant Mothering Motherhood in the Motherland The Ambivalent Quintessence of New Indian Womanhood Speculating on the Cultural Contradictions of New Indian Mothers Motherhood among Kodavathees – Matrescence among a “Martial” “Race” Contributing Framing Devices of Grounded, Everyday New Cosmopolitanisms and Transnationalisms Cosmopolitanism, Modernity, and Mothering Chapter 2 Prenatal Rites of Passage; Kuppadis and Baby Showers The Kuppadi The Baby Shower Australia: “Joint Kuppadis” as the “Coorg Baby Shower” Singapore: Trumping the “Even the Bangalore People” by Going the Extra Mile India: Different Spheres; Kuppadi: Baby Showers; Family: Friends Discussion and Conclusion Chapter 3 Postpartum Practices for Pettavva, Pujas, and Cord Burials Postpartum Australia Singapore India Naming Ceremony and Ganga Puja Australia Singapore India Umbilical Cord Burial Australia Singapore India Conclusions Chapter 4 Cultural Consumption; Risk, Mothering Manuals, and Motherlines Reading How to Be Pregnant Onwards in Risk Society What (Not) to Expect and the (Un)common Sense Book Australia Singapore India Conclusions Chapter 5 “Aspects of Our Ancestors”; Naming Practices Kodava Pedha (Name): Selfhood, Culture, and Kinship Australia Singapore India Uttered Care Chapter 6 “That’s Probably My Biggest Worry … the Language Thing”: Gendered Mother Tongue Maintenance Australia i. Unworkable ii. Workable with English Singapore i. Outsourcing ii. Homely or Foreign? Let’s Try Code India i. Effect of School ii. It Takes a Village Linguistic Care Chapter 7 Romanticized and Rationalized Recipes for “Coorg-ness”: Firsts and Family Foods First Foods Ragi: Australia Ragi: Singapore Ragi: India Bondu Gendered and Ethnicized Feeding Work: Cooking Up “Home” Woman as Food, Food as Mother Australia Singapore India: “Both Children Love Their Pandi Curry. We Have Help at Home” (Anitha) Conclusions Chapter 8 Emplacement and Festival Food: “How to Tell All They Do Is Make Pork and Drink?” Kailpodh Kaveri Shankramana Putthari Emplacement and Affiliation Australia Singapore India Other (Pan-Indian and Local) Festivals Australia Singapore India Conclusions Chapter 9 Transnational Maternal Emotional Labour and Its Extensions Coorg Core Values and Modalities of Care Connection to Family and Home Respect for the Elderly: Touching Feet (Kaal Pudi) Hospitality Gendered Translocal and Transnational Circulation of Care Visits Home to Achieve Co-presence Care from Kin/(Grand)mothers(-in-law) Kinwork through New/Instant Communication Technologies Gendered Extra-community Care The Maternal Emotional Labour of Extended Moral Community Conclusion Cosmopolitan Maternalisms and Modern Coorg Outlooks Cosmopolitan Maternalisms Modern Coorg Outlooks Image References References Appendices Glossary IndexReviewsAuthor InformationBittiandra Chand Somaiah holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the Asia Research Institute and Yale-NUS College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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