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Psychoanalytic and socio-cultural perspectives on women in India : violence, safety and survival / edited by Paula L. Ellman, Jhuma Basak and Gertraud Schlesinger-Kipp

Ellman, Paula Lisette [Herausgeberin/-geber]

London ; New York : Routledge, 2022

viii, 116 Seiten

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet (Rechtsgrundlage FID). Univ. Heidelberg, CATS, Südasi

Erscheint auch als: Psychoanalytic and socio-cultural perspectives on women in India. - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-367-18282-3 (hardback); 978-0-367-18283-0 (paperback)

978-0-429-06050-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2021002083

HQ1742

305.40954     Ähnliche Literatur

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-ASIEN-DE-16

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LOC-SH: Women -- India -- Social conditions ; Women -- India -- Psychology

"This important book provides a bridge between psychoanalytic perspectives and socio-cultural issues to shine a spotlight on the experiences of women in India today. Women's wellbeing and security has often depended upon their gender positioning while other binaries like rural-urban, class, caste have also played a crucial role globally and especially in India. Historically, women have been subjected to various forms of oppression that includes sex selective abortions, domestic violence, bride burning for dowry, and acid attacks. Threats to women's security have recently increased with progressive polarization and hardening of socio-political and cultural ideologies. This book assesses how women's lives are impacted by these social and cultural conventions and stigma, including ideas around motherhood, religion, intimacy and femininity itself, and the psychological implications these have. Topics include the seduction of religion, motherhood in contemporary times, intimacy and violence, and fundamentalist states of mind in the clinical space. While the book echoes a regional specificity, it simultaneously resonates a backdrop of global change of affairs that has its impact on ideological freedom and the concept of inclusivity in terms of gender, race, culture, politics across the world. For this comprehensive perspective, the effort is to create a platform of authors comprising psychoanalysts, social scientists, scholars from the liberal arts discipline, as well as social activists. In a country where women have been historically subjected to both psychological and physical oppression, this timely and original book will interest a range of scholars interested in gender, mental health and contemporary Indian society, as well as clinicians in the field"--