{"product_id":"cosmopolitan-maternalisms-9781487507091","title":"Cosmopolitan Maternalisms","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCosmopolitan Maternalisms\u003c\/em\u003e explores how Kodavathee immigrant mothering is practised with a pragmatic awareness of adapting the ways of the ancestors to the promises and pitfalls associated with living in modernity. As a member of this community, which possesses martial and agricultural traditions, and as an immigrant mother herself, Bittiandra Chand Somaiah engages in maternal conversations and in-depth qualitative interviews with forty-three mothers. The book emphasizes the socio-cultural processes associated with cosmopolitanization that accomplish mothering in general and that affect these Kodavathee mothers specifically. \u003cem\u003eCosmopolitan Maternalisms\u003c\/em\u003e makes sense of the\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52151280927063,"sku":"9781487507091","price":44.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487507091.jpg?v=1762960697","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cosmopolitan-maternalisms-9781487507091","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}