She Fell and Became a Horse

Through painting, drawing and text, this book explores the existential trajectories of young people in Nepal as they fight against domestic hierarchies and gendered politics in the context of their daily lives. Building on three women’s real-life stories collected through long-term ethnographic fieldwork, it portrays intimate dimensions of domestic relationships and the ways these experiences lead to the construction of an idealised past and a dreaded – as much as sought – future. In so doing, the author approaches the characters’ personal journeys as micro-processes of social change and moral self-making, which unfold through inter subjective processes.