Gender, Class and Reflexive Modernity in India [electronic resource] /
Belliappa, J.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1 Setting Out to Study Class and Gender in Contemporary India""; ""2 Interrogating Reflexive Modernity""; ""3 The 'New' Indian Middle Class Woman""; ""4 Individualism and Responsibility: Women's Relationships Within Their Families""; ""5 Women's Relationships with Paid Work in the Transnational Economy""; ""6 Managing Paid Employment and Family Life""; ""7 Relational Reflexivity, Individual Choice and 'Respectable Modernity'""; ""Conclusion: The Collective Project of Self""; ""Notes""; ""References""
""Appendix: Profiles of Interviewees""""Index""
Includes bibliographical references 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.
Sociology.
Political science.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Social policy.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Gender Studies.
Political Science.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Social Policy.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Sociology, general.