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Study of Socioeconomic conditions of the population stratified into caste-occupation categories.
This book examines what matriliny, the right to live in and be maintained by their taravad (natal home, or matrilineal joint family), means to women, and how and why it changed in Travancore, an independent state till it was merged with Kerala in 1947.
Health and medicine cannot be understood without considering the role of nurses, both as professionals and as working women. In India, unlike other countries, nurses have suffered an exceptional degree of neglect at the hands of state, a situation that has been detrimental to the quality of both rural and urban health care. Charting the history of the development of nursing in India over 100 years, Indian Sisters examines the reasons why nurses have so consistently been sidelined and excluded from health care governance and policymaking. The book challenges the routine suggestion that nursing’s poor status is mainly attributable to socio-cultural factors, such as caste, limitations on fema...
Papers presented at the Indian Statistical Institute Golden Jubilee International Symposium on Women, Work, and Society, New Delhi, 1982.