Gender, class and reflexive modernity in india / Jyothsna Latha Belliappa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Belliappa, Jyothsna Latha.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle class women--India.

Middle class women.

Civilization, Modern.

India.

Physical Description:

x, 184 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0230300189

9780230300187

OCLC:

842208311