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020			_a978-81-7829-672-2
040			_cSage Publications India Pvt Ltd
082			_a306.87430954 B4697 J _b301669
100			_aRinki Bhattacharya Ed.
245			_aJanani: mothers, daughters, motherhood
260			_aNew Delhi _bSage Publications India Pvt Ltd _c2013
300			_a197 Pp
521			_aJanani or mother as the creator of life, defines this narrative collection. The book brings together autobiographical writings of women from many walks of life - noted authors, artists, academics -to share their experiences of being mothers, daughters or both. The accounts combine memory and nostalgia in nuanced detail, making each narrative heart-warming and at times, profoundly challenging. The contributors abandon their public faces to provide humane, intimate and compelling narratives. The collection includes accounts of adoptive motherhood, step mothering and single motherhood. On the One hand, the reader encounters the wrenching pain of an abortion, while on the other, the choice of a women determined not to be a mother. The Janani stories vividly explore the whole gamut of motherhood. Immensely readable, the volume has a wide appeal not just for mothers and daughters, but for fathers and sons as well, in fact for all those who celebrate the rare gift of human relationships.
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