Title: Gender, class and reflexive modernity in India /
Authors: Belliappa, Jyothsna Latha.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Middle class women India.; Civilization, Modern; Black & Asian studies India.; Civilization, Modern.; Ethnic studies India.; Gender studies: women & girls India.; Gender studies: women India.; Middle class women; Social classes India.; Social classes India.; SOCIAL SCIENCE Discrimination & Race Relations.; SOCIAL SCIENCE Minority Studies.; Society.
Abstract: 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.