Cosmopolitan Maternalisms: Migration, Kinship, and Coorg Mothering in Modernity

by Chand Somaiah

This women-centred study examines social reconstructions of immigrant mothering among a middle-class minority community of first-generation Coorg women - Kodavathees - in urban Karnataka, Singapore, and Sydney through conceptual lenses of new cosmopolitanisms and new maternalisms.

Cosmopolitan Maternalisms explores how Kodavathee immigrant mothering is practised with a pragmatic awareness of adapting the ways of the ancestors to the promises...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487507097
• ISBN13: 9781487507091
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher