Gender, class and reflexive modernity in India / Jyothsna Latha Belliappa, Azim Premji University, India.
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- 9780230300187 (hbk.)
- 0230300189 (hbk.)
- 305.4822 BEL 23
- HQ1742 .B445 2013
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Gulbanoo Premji Library of Azim Premji University, Bengaluru | Ground Floor | 305.4822 BEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 31402 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-177) and index.
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.
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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