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The Women of Totagadde

Broken Silence

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Authors:
  1. Helen E. Ullrich

    1. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, USA

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  • Presents the rich and complex realities of the lives of generations of women in a single village
  • Illustrates the ways in which the acceptance of women's education has preserved close familial and kinship ties while allowing a move from a caste to class structure
  • Represents decades of intensive ethnographic fieldwork

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Helen E. Ullrich
    Pages 1-7

  3. Conclusion: Transition in Totagadde from 1964 to 2011

    • Helen E. Ullrich
    Pages 227-242

  4. Four Families over Four Time Periods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-14
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    2. The Silent Generation: 1964

      • Helen E. Ullrich
      Pages 15-45

    3. Breaking the Silence: 1978

      • Helen E. Ullrich
      Pages 47-68

    4. Discovering a Voice: 1992

      • Helen E. Ullrich
      Pages 69-98

    5. Individual Voices: 1993–2011

      • Helen E. Ullrich
      Pages 99-134

  5. Forty-seven Years of Observed Change: Education as a Catalyst for Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-137
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    2. Education: From Illiteracy to College and Profession

      • Helen E. Ullrich
      Pages 139-155

    3. Marriage: From Woman as Object to a Decision-Maker

      • Helen E. Ullrich
      Pages 157-180

    4. Ritual Etiquette: From Controlling to Complementing Life

      • Helen E. Ullrich
      Pages 181-208

    5. Widow: From Culturally Invisible to Valued Member of Society

      • Helen E. Ullrich
      Pages 209-226

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 243-252
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About this book

This book depicts one South Indian village during the fifty-year period when women’s education became a possibility—and then a reality. Despite illiteracy, religious ritual marking them as inferior, and pre-pubertal marriages, the daughters and granddaughters of the silent, passive women of the 1960s have morphed into assertive, self-confident millennial women. Helen E. Ullrich considers the following questions: can education alter the perception of women as inferior and forever childlike? What happens when women refuse the mantle of socialized passivity? Throughout The Women of Totagadde, Helen Ullrich pushes us to consider how women’s lives and society at large have been altered through education.  

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, USA

    Helen E. Ullrich

About the author

Helen E. Ullrich, M.D., Ph.D., has published in anthropological, linguistic, and psychiatric journals. She has been a distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association since 2000. Currently she is Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Tulane University Medical Center, USA.   

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Women of Totagadde

  • Book Subtitle: Broken Silence

  • Authors: Helen E. Ullrich

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59969-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59968-1Published: 10 March 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59969-8Published: 02 March 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 252

  • Number of Illustrations: 68 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Gender Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography

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