Poor and Pregnant in New Delhi, India

ISBN-13: 9781138403604 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Helen Vallianatos

Opis

Documents cultural values and beliefs, dietary practices, and the nutritional and health status of mothers in Indian squatter settlements. This book explores the large-scale forces and local and individual choices that New Delhi women make in interpreting cultural dietary norms based on their reproductive histories, and other specific conditions.

Recenzje

"This research exquisitely exemplifies the complexities and strengths of mixed-method design. Vallianatos links diverse data sets-physiological measurements, dietary analysis, market surveys-with ethnographic data to produce a rich and comprehensive description of the variety of forces shaping women's food consumption practices in India.[and] achieves the extraordinary task of forming a coherent portrayal of everyday life in the New Delhi slums." -Kim D. Raine, University of Alberta

Spis treści

1: Food, Gender, and Power; 2: The Setting: Living in Poverty; 3: The Research Process: Participants and Method; 4: The Political Economy of Health and Hunger in India; 5: Eating for Two? Perspectives on Food Consumption during Pregnancy; 6: The Social Contexts for Pregnant Women’s Nutritional Landscapes; 7: Health Assessment: Numbers and Experiences; 8: Relationships between Food, Power, and Gender

O autorze

Helen Vallianatos