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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected Title: Receiving and giving: Distributivity as the source of women's wellbeing Abstract: This dissertation explores the various criteria that Hindu women living in the temple town of Bhubaneswar in Orissa, eastern India, consider essential for achieving wellbeing. It uses native exegeses and indigenous concepts to understand and appreciate these criteria. It suggests that for these women who live in extended households in a fairly orthodox Hindu community, wellbeing results from occupying particular family roles, those that are characterized by a vigorous distributivity. Within the Oriya Hindu extended household, such roles are those of senior wife and married husband's mother. In these roles, a woman is continually and substantially receiving from and giving to those above and below, within the family and outside. As the distributive center of all household activities when she ensures the family wellbeing, her own wellbeing peaks; when she moves out of these family roles, becomes less critically involved in the distributional nexus of the household, her wellbeing declines. Therefore, a woman's access to and achievement of wellbeing varies systematically across the life cycle. |
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