{"product_id":"cosmopolitan-maternalisms-migration-kinship-and-coorg-mothering-in-modernity-hardback-9781487507091","title":"Cosmopolitan Maternalisms; Migration, Kinship, and Coorg Mothering in Modernity (Hardback) 9781487507091","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCosmopolitan Maternalisms\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMigration, Kinship, and Coorg Mothering in Modernity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBittiandra Chand Somaiah (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487507091\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 November 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16 x 2.4 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis women-centred study examines social reconstructions of immigrant mothering among a middle-class minority community of first-generation Coorg women – Kodavathees – in urban Karnataka, Singapore, and Sydney through conceptual lenses of new cosmopolitanisms and new maternalisms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCosmopolitan Maternalisms\u003c\/em\u003e explores how Kodavathee immigrant mothering is practised with a pragmatic awareness of adapting the ways of the ancestors to the promises and pitfalls associated with living in modernity. As a member of this community, which possesses martial and agricultural traditions, and as an immigrant mother herself, Bittiandra Chand Somaiah engages in maternal conversations and in-depth qualitative interviews with forty-three mothers. The book emphasizes the socio-cultural processes associated with cosmopolitanization that accomplish mothering in general and that affect these Kodavathee mothers specifically. \u003cem\u003eCosmopolitan Maternalisms\u003c\/em\u003e makes sense of the gendered and globalized convictions, contradictions, and aspirations shared by these mothers who are poised to slowly challenge the heteronormative maternal pedestals and patriarchal structures of middle-class transnational India. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Tables and Images\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: “Life out of Coorg makes kids cosmopolitan”\u003cbr\u003e1. Kodavathee Immigrant Mothering in Modernity\u003cbr\u003e2. \u003cem\u003eKuppadis\u003c\/em\u003e and Baby Showers\u003cbr\u003e3. \u003cem\u003ePettavva\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePujas\u003c\/em\u003e, and Cord Burials\u003cbr\u003e4. Cultural Consumption: Risk, Mothering Manuals, and Motherlines\u003cbr\u003e5. Kodava \u003cem\u003ePedha\u003c\/em\u003e: “Aspects of our ancestors”\u003cbr\u003e6. Metrolinguistic Care\u003cbr\u003e7. First and Family Foods\u003cbr\u003e8. Transnational Maternal Labours\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Cosmopolitan Maternalisms and Modern Coorg Outlooks\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendices\u003cbr\u003eGlossary\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595481346328,"sku":"9781487507091","price":38.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/cosmopolitan-maternalisms-migration-kinship-and-coorg-mothering-in-modernity-hardback-9781487507091","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}