(M)otherhood: on the choices of being a woman / Pragya Agarwal.

By:

Agarwal, Pragya [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2021.Description: 374 pages ; 23 cmISBN:

9781838853167(hbk.)

Other title:

Motherhood

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: ebook version :: No titleDDC classification:

306.8743 AGA

Contents:

I. The Age of Innocence -- II. The Age of Defiance -- III. Hobson's Choice -- IV. Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock -- V. Fruitless Crown -- VI. Half-women Creatures -- VII. The Blue Line -- VIII. Fork in the Road -- IX. Umbilical Cord -- Coda.

Summary: "In a world where women have more choices than ever, society nevertheless continues to exert the stigma and pressures of less enlightened times when it comes to having children. We define women by whether they embrace or reject motherhood; whether they can give birth or not. Behavioural Scientist Pragya Agarwal uses her own varied experiences and choices as a woman of South Asian heritage to examine the broader societal, historical and scientific factors that drive how we think and talk about motherhood. She looks at how women's bodies have been monitored and controlled through history, and how this shapes the political constructs of motherhood and womanhood now.Extremely open in its honesty and meticulously researched, (M)otherhood probes themes of infertility, childbirth and reproductive justice, and makes a powerful and urgent argument for the need to tackle society's obsession with women's bodies and fertility." -- Provided by publisher.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	306.8743 AGA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K5784

Amazon
HYD8-13353923
Rs.550/-

Includes bibliographical references.

"In a world where women have more choices than ever, society nevertheless continues to exert the stigma and pressures of less enlightened times when it comes to having children. We define women by whether they embrace or reject motherhood; whether they can give birth or not. Behavioural Scientist Pragya Agarwal uses her own varied experiences and choices as a woman of South Asian heritage to examine the broader societal, historical and scientific factors that drive how we think and talk about motherhood. She looks at how women's bodies have been monitored and controlled through history, and how this shapes the political constructs of motherhood and womanhood now.Extremely open in its honesty and meticulously researched, (M)otherhood probes themes of infertility, childbirth and reproductive justice, and makes a powerful and urgent argument for the need to tackle society's obsession with women's bodies and fertility." -- Provided by publisher.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.