cover image May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India

May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons: A Journey Among the Women of India

Elizabeth Bumiller, Elisabeth Bumiller. Ballantine Books, $14.95 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-449-90614-9

The overall powerlessness of Indian women is shown through a discussion of traditions and portraits of typical individuals. ``Based on Bumiller's four-year residence in India, this perceptive, alert travelogue considers the prevalent custom of arranged marriage, India's scattered, budding feminist movement, population control, female infanticide and the legacy of Indira Gandhi, a nonfeminist,'' said PW. Photos. Author tour. (June)