TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pinto,Sarah
TI  - Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India 
T2  - Contemporary Ethnography
SN  - 9780812245837
AV  - RC451.I4 .P56 2014eb
U1  - 362.2/20954 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Mentally ill women
KW  - Care
KW  - India
KW  - Psychiatric hospitals
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Women
KW  - Mental health services
KW  - Middle Eastern
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - African Studies
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Asian Studies
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Gender Studies
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Middle Eastern Studies
KW  - Women's Studies
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Note on Transliterations --; Introduction: Love and Affliction --; 1. Rehabilitating Ammi --; 2. On Dissolution --; 3. Moksha and Mishappenings --; 4. On Dissociation --; 5. Making a Case --; 6. Ethics of Dissolution --; Bibliography --; Index --; Acknowledgments; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812209280
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