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Dharma's Daughters: Contemporary Indian Women and Hindu Culture
by Sara Mitter
- CULTURAL PORTRAIT
- 1991
- PAPER
- 198 PAGES
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An American woman's insightful attempt to understand the place of women in the culture of her adoptive country. The American daughter-in-law of a Bengali family, Mitter writes of the everday life of diverse women of Bombay in Pat One. In part Two she discusses Hindu myth and culture. Part Three is a survey of the women's movement in India since the 1970s.
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