The Cradle And The Gun Paperback

India

Neeti Aryal Khanal

This work is situated in context of apparent dichotomy between motherhood and war. The research explores how Maoist women managed motherhood alongside the armed conflict waged by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-CPN). Examination of Maoist women's motherhood experiences shows that they experienced motherhood as resonating between two different patriarchal structures: the CPN (Maoist) party and Nepali society. As they negotiated motherhood, they developed a series of strategies to reconcile contradictory pressures on their mothering practices.

3844316639

9783844316636

English

LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

05 May 2011

108

Neeti Aryal Khanal is lecturer at Central Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Tribhuvan University. She was recipient of Australian Leadership Awards Scholarship (ALA)in 2008 which enabled her to earn Masters by Research in Arts from Monash University, Australia. She lives in Kathmandu, Nepal with her husband and two sons