Poor and Pregnant in New Delhi, India

List of contents

1: Food, Gender, and Power; 2: The Setting: Living in Poverty; 3: The Research Process: Participants and Method; 4: The Political Economy of Health and Hunger in India; 5: Eating for Two? Perspectives on Food Consumption during Pregnancy; 6: The Social Contexts for Pregnant Women’s Nutritional Landscapes; 7: Health Assessment: Numbers and Experiences; 8: Relationships between Food, Power, and Gender

About the author

Helen Vallianatos

Summary

Documents cultural values and beliefs, dietary practices, and the nutritional and health status of mothers in Indian squatter settlements. This book explores the large-scale forces and local and individual choices that New Delhi women make in interpreting cultural dietary norms based on their reproductive histories, and other specific conditions.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Vallianatos, Vallianatos Helen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781138403604
• ISBN: 978-1-138-40360-4
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: International Institute for Qualitative Methodology Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General