Sociology of gender in India : contemporary issues and perspectives / edited by Pushpesh Kumar, Rituparna Patgiri, Deepali Aparajita Dungdung

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pushpesh Kumar, editor.

Patgiri, Rituparna, editor.

Dungdung, Deepali Aparajita, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--India.

Sex role.

India--Social conditions--1947-.

India.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"Sociology of Gender in India brings together feminist and queer scholarship to chart the changing landscape of gender debates in Indian Sociology. Spanning over five decades of disciplinary evolution, this volume interrogates how gender, caste, sexuality, class, and digitalization intersect in shaping contemporary social life. With essays by a new generation of scholars, it critically engages with foundational debates in kinship, marriage, labour, media, nationalism, and pedagogy, while foregrounding neglected areas such as femtech, queer infrastructures, and digital precarity. The volume not only reanimates classic concerns of Indian feminist sociology but also aims to intervene in global conversations on intersectionality, decolonial knowledge, and the sociology of everyday life. At once reflective and forward-looking, this book strives to be a necessary contribution for students, teachers, and researchers invested in the sociology of gender and its transformative possibilities in contemporary India"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

Sociology of gender in India / Pushpesh Kumar, Rituparna Patgiri, and Deepali Aparajita Dungdung

Right-wing women : Through the life and times of Aparna Ramtirthankar / Swati Dyahadroy

‘Our culture!’ : Cultural diversity on the site of family / Anagha Tambe

Balika shiksha : Reflections on a guided text to ‘Bharatiya’ girlhood / Shilpi Shikha Phukan

Dwelling separately under the same roof : Matrilineal households of Malabar Muslims / Aleena Sebastian

Childfree married women : Contesting traditional gender roles / Jagriti Gangopadhyay and Akanksha Sridhara

Understanding caste and gender through the ethical practices of Bhumihar women in Bihar / Vandana Rai

‘You’re a big boy, stop crying!’ : Childhood and performance in music reality shows / Sabiha Mazid

Beyond the ‘goddess’ : Everyday lives of women Velichappads in Kerala / Gayatri Balu

A labour process approach to social reproduction / Aardra Surendran

Privilege does not always protect : Discourses of respectful maternal care / Sreeparna Chattopadhyay

Making a case for quantitative methods / Sherin Sabu

Fictions and fantasies in the understanding of kinship in contemporary India / Anindita Majumdar

Doing autoethnography : Towards the self as epistemologically significant / Anurekha Chari-Wagh

Contesting disruption : Gender and class dynamics in platform work in India / Gayatri Nair

Urbanization, security, and social media networks / Pratichi Majumdar

Femtech apps, quantified reproduction, and biopolitics / Paro Mishra and Shambhawi Vikram

Lungis and trousers : Dressing and hybrid masculinity amongst Miya men of Assam / Sampurna Das

Studying the everyday lives of students at a government school in urban Assam / Gargi Gayan

Gender and transnationalism : Identity making among ‘Bengali’ migrant women in Odisha / Chandrika Ray and Tanaya Mohanty

Okay, Cupid : Configurations of digital dating in contemporary urban India / Pranoo Deshraju

Queering infrastructures : Queer necropolitics to emancipatory politics of living in higher education in India / Sayantan Datta

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed August 4, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Sociology of gender in India

ISBN:

9781009717267

100971726X

9781009717250

1009717251

OCLC:

1596674538

Publisher Number:

CIPO000395439

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license