{"product_id":"daughters-of-parvati-women-and-madness-in-contemporary-india-9780812245837","title":"Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of \u003ci\u003eviraha\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaughters of Parvati\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eDaughters of Parvati\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Pinto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812245837\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/21\/2014 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSarah Pinto is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University and author of Where There Is No Midwife: Birth and Loss in Rural India.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40412468543603,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":104.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_a9e10091-3d6e-419e-81a6-28129871f9ab.jpg?v=1662127107","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/daughters-of-parvati-women-and-madness-in-contemporary-india-9780812245837","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}