Includes bibliographical references and index.

As the husband, so the wife : old patriarchy, new patriarchy and misogyny in one late nineenth-century domestic science manual / Judith E. Walsh -- Women and agency : vignettes from Indian families / Mukul Mukherjee -- Modern families and independent living : reflections on contemporary aging / Sarah Lamb -- Women and the Naga family today : communitarianism in practice / Bonita Aleaz -- Society, family and the self in Indian fiction / Jayita Sengupta -- Imagined family : pangs of transition / Esha Dey -- The politics of home and food in Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies / Irma Maini -- Representation of the family in Marathi autobiography written by Dalit women / Pushpa Bhave -- Real and imagined Gujarati families : shifting positionalities of gender in contemporary Gujarati women's writings / Sutapa Chaudhuri -- Hypocrisy and hollowness in the Indian joint family system : a study of Mahesh Dattani's plays / Arpa Ghosh -- Reflections of family and women in Telugu literature : a look at women's fiction / N. Venugopal Rao -- Globalization and diasporic family dynamics : reconciling the old and the new / Mary Mathew -- Food, family, widowhood in Ashapurna Devi's short fiction / Naina Dey -- The self and the family in Telugu women's poetry / M. Sridhar and Alladi Uma -- The family in flux : the decimated family in Rituparno Ghosh's films / Shoma A. Chatterji -- The "reel" Indian family : reflections from celluloid / Meghna Gulzar -- Hunting for fish : a poem / Meena Alexander -- The family : as I saw it, as I see it / Vidya Bal -- Thoughts on home / Nonda Chatterjee -- Looking back / Shashi Deshpande -- Small-scale reflections on an ancestral home / Makarand Paranjape -- Indian families in the world : forty years in Manitoba / Uma Parameswaran -- A dialog with Amartya Sen / Sanjukta Dasgupta and Malashri Lal.