{"product_id":"daughters-of-parvati-sarah-pinto-9781512823745","title":"Daughters of Parvati: Women and Madness in Contemporary India","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of \u003ci\u003eviraha\u003c\/i\u003e, the agony of separation from one's beloved, a form of love that is also intense suffering. These contradictory emotions reflect the overlapping dissolutions of love, family, and mental health explored by Sarah Pinto in this visceral ethnography. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaughters of Parvati\u003c\/i\u003e centers on the lives of women in different settings of psychiatric care in northern India, particularly the contrasting environments of a private mental health clinic and a wing of a government hospital. Through an anthropological consideration of modern medicine in a nonwestern setting, Pinto challenges the dominant framework for addressing crises such as long-term involuntary commitment, poor treatment in homes, scarcity of licensed practitioners, heavy use of pharmaceuticals, and the ways psychiatry may reproduce constraining social conditions. Inflected by the author's own experience of separation and single motherhood during her fieldwork, \u003ci\u003eDaughters of Parvati\u003c\/i\u003e urges us to think about the ways women bear the consequences of the vulnerabilities of love and family in their minds, bodies, and social worlds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Pinto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1512823740\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781512823745\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 5.91w x 0.79d","brand":"Sarah Pinto","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44068249469183,"sku":"9781512823745","price":26.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0bc83b23-f27e-485f-a707-b38e9eedc226.jpg?v=1685417911","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/daughters-of-parvati-sarah-pinto-9781512823745","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}