Motherhood in Ancient India

Sukumari Bhattacharji

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Indian and Buddhist Studies Gender and Feminist Studies South Asian Studies and Diaspora

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This paper examines the role of women as mothers in ancient India as revealed in the various texts and locates society's attitude to women in material production. The woman was the human counterpart of land in a patri- archally organised agricultural society

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1973The Hidden Dimension 1949The Second Sex 1979The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender 1983Contemporary feminist thought 1932Sexual Life in Ancient Greece 1951The Mechanical Bride

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