Being middle-class in India
Subtitle: a way of life
By: Henrike Donner
Series: Routledge contemporary South Asia series -- 53
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780415671675; 9780203148532
Subjects: Social life and customs; Middle class families; Social mobility; Social conditions; Middle class; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Henrike Donner; title: Masculinity, advertising, and the reproduction of the middle-class family in Western India, 1918-1940 / Douglas E. Haynes; title: Gendered bodies, domestic work, and perfect families : new regimes of gender and food in Bengali middle-class lifestyles / Henrike Donner; title: "Keeping it in the family" : work, education, and gender hierarchies among Tiruppur's industrial capitalists / Geert De Neve; title: Cultural contractions and intergenerational relations : the construction of selfhood among middle class youth in Baroda / Margit van Wessel; title: Globalisation, neoliberalism, and middle-class cultural politics in Kolkata / Timothy J. Scrase and Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase; title: The social transformation of the medical profession in urban Kerala : doctors, social mobility, and the middle classes / Caroline Wilson; title: Kitty-parties and middle-class femininity in New Delhi / Anne Waldrop; title: Zara hatke ("somewhat different") : the new middle classes and the changing forms of Hindi cinema / Rachel Dwyer.