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Being middle-class in India : a way of life / Henrike Donner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Donner, Henrike.
- Series:
- Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 53.
- Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 53
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle class--India--History--21st century.
- Middle class.
- Middle class families--India--Social conditions.
- Middle class families.
- Social mobility--India.
- Social mobility.
- Manners and customs.
- Social conditions.
- History.
- India.
- India--Social life and customs--21st century.
- Genre:
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2011.
- Summary:
- Contributors in anthropology, history, sociology, communication, and development studies describe the diverse lifestyles of the middle class in India today, in this collection of eight papers from a July 2007 conference held at the University of Sussex. Readers will gain new perspectives on middle-class femininity in New Delhi, the construction of selfhood among middle-class youth in Baroda, the new middle classes and the changing forms of Hindi cinema, and work, education, and gender hierarchies among Tiruppur's industrial capitalists. A chapter advertising and the reproduction of the middle-class family in Western India, 1918-1940, includes b&w historical advertisements. Editor Donner teaches Indian Studies at Georg-August University, Germany. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Introduction / Henrike Donner and Geert de Neve
- Masculinity, advertising, and the reproduction of the middle-class family in Western India, 1918-1940 / Douglas E. Haynes
- Gendered bodies, domestic work, and perfect families : new regimes of gender and food in Bengali middle-class lifestyles / Henrike Donner
- "Keeping it in the family" : work, education, and gender hierarchies among Tiruppur's industrial capitalists / Geert De Neve
- Cultural contractions and intergenerational relations : the construction of selfhood among middle class youth in Baroda / Margit van Wessel
- Globalisation, neoliberalism, and middle-class cultural politics in Kolkata / Timothy J. Scrase and Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase
- The social transformation of the medical profession in urban Kerala : doctors, social mobility, and the middle classes / Caroline Wilson
- Kitty-parties and middle-class femininity in New Delhi / Anne Waldrop
- Zara hatke ("somewhat different") : the new middle classes and the changing forms of Hindi cinema / Rachel Dwyer.
- Notes:
- " ... conference 'Explorations of the Middle Classes in South Asia' held in July 2007 at the University of Sussex and at the LSE"--p.[xiv]
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dr. Craig Baxter Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780415671675
- 0415671671
- 9780203148532
- 0203148533
- OCLC:
- 731372956
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