Using both Susan Seymours ethnography of Family and Gender Systems in Transition in urban India and Susan Wadleys ethnography One Straw from a Broom Cannot Sweep, of the joint family in rural North India, critically examine how family remains a central institution shaping individual lives even amid social change. How do education, urbanization, and economic transformation alterbut not eliminatefamily authority, gender hierarchy, expectations of duty, and educational opportunities for young girls? Compare the joint family ideal in rural contexts with the changing family arrangements in Old Town and New Capital Bhubaneswar, paying particular attention to how young womens lives illuminate both the resilience and the limits of family-centered social organization.
Topics to consider: rural joint family and urban extended family, changes in gender roles/marriage, education and women, aspirations and reality
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