The Women of Totagadde

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This book depicts one South Indian village during the fifty-year period when womens education became a possibilityand 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<i> The Women of Totagadde</i>, Helen Ullrich pushes us to consider how womens lives and society at large have been altered through education.<br/>

Autorenportrait

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.   

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