Women, education, and family structure in India / edited by Carol Chapnick Mukhopadhyay and Susan Seymour.

Cover title: Women, education and family structure in India.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction and theoretical overview / Carol C. Mukhopadhyay and Susan Seymour -- Social change or social reform : women, education, and family in pre-independence India / Karuna Chanana -- Woman's nature and access to education in Bengal / Malavika Karlekar -- Arranging marriages : how fathers' concerns limit women's educational achievements / Steve Derné -- Family structure and Indian women's participation in science and engineering / Carol C. Mukhopadhyay -- Schooling for what? : the cultural and social context of women's education in a South Indian Muslim family / Sylvia Vatuk -- Women, marriage, and educational change in Bhubaneswar, India : a twenty-five year perspective / Susan Seymour -- Asset and liability : the role of female education in changing marriage patterns among Havik Brahmins / Helen E. Ullrich -- College women's aspirations : a challenge to the patrifocal family system? / Susan Seymour.