Fertility And Familial Power Relations: Procreation In South India (nais Monograph Series, 87)

Describes and analyses the corollaries of declining fertility in Southern India to discover how familial and gender relations are affected by the new situation of women giving birth only to 2-3 children. 1. Contextualizing Fertility -- 2. Little Hungry Bellies: Children As Consumers -- 3. An Ethnography Of Fertility Practices -- 4. Marital Relations: 'it's Dangerous To Love Your Husband!' -- 5. The Familial Web Of Domination And Challenge -- 6. Gendered Children: Son For The Sake Of The Name -- 7. Conclusion: Delivering Lakshmi -- App. 1. Quantitative Data On Fertility In South India And Gopalapalli -- App. 2. Poem On The Fieldwork. Minna Säävälä. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 219-233) And Index.