Stigma

Stigma and Everyday Resistance Practices Childless Women in South India -This reading looks at married women in South India whom are examined on the fact that they are childless. The author uses interviews and fieldwork to analyse married women's experiences of stigma when they are childless and their everyday resistance practices. Also the author looks at how they challenge stigma. The stigma theory predicts, childless women deviate from the "ordinary and natural" life course and …

…contribute to rethinking Western assumptions in his theory. The findings also suggest new directions for research on power and everyday resistance. Contexts of Stigma Remaining unmarried challenges cultural beliefs about the 'ordinary and natural' life course for Indian women, and everyone whom were childless recalled times when they felt reduced in the eyes of another. Some of these comments were said to be annoying and in exteme cases they were threatening to the womens welfare.