Download or read book Womanhood In The Making written by Mary Hancock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Womanhood in the Making is an ethnographic study of Brahman women's ritual practice that focuses on relations between religious practice, class and caste inequalities, and nationalist discourses. Using analyses of both domestic ritual and women's personal narratives, the author investigates the spaces of female agency that ritual practice affords,