Gender, class and reflexive modernity in India / Jyothsna Latha Belliappa, Azim Premji University, India.

By:

Belliappa, Jyothsna Latha

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Genders and sexualities in the social sciencesProducer: 2013Description: x, 184 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781349960606 (hbk.)
0230300189
9780230300187

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.4822 BEL 23 019670

LOC classification:

HQ1742 .B445 2013

Other classification:

15.00
71.31
77.60

Online resources:

Contents:

Setting out to study class and gender in contemporary India -- Interrogating reflexive modernity -- The 'new' Indian middle class woman -- Individualism and responsibility : Women's relationships within their families -- Women's relationships with paid work in the transnational economy -- Managing paid employment and family life -- Relational reflexivity, individual choice and respectable modernity.

Summary: Using in-depth interviews, this book explores women employed in the Indian IT industry and highlights the gender specific and culturally specific consequences of reflexive modernity in neo-liberal India.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	305.4822 BEL 019670 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		019670

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-177) and index.

Using in-depth interviews, this book explores women employed in the Indian IT industry and highlights the gender specific and culturally specific consequences of reflexive modernity in neo-liberal India.

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