新生學校財團法人新生醫護管理專科學校圖書館 |

Gender, class and reflexive modernity in India

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Gender, class and reflexive modernity in India/ Jyothsna Belliappa.
Author:	Belliappa, Jyothsna.
Published:	[Basingstoke] :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2013.,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137319227
ISBN:	9781137319227 (electronic bk.)

Gender, class and reflexive modernity in India
Belliappa, Jyothsna.

Gender, class and reflexive modernity in India[electronic resource] /Jyothsna Belliappa. - [Basingstoke] :Palgrave Macmillan,2013. - 1 online resource.

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.

This book examines how middle class women in India engage with divergent cultural discourses of respectability and individualism to make sense of their work and family lives. Based on in-depth interviews amongst women employed in the Indian IT industry, it argues that women attempt to conform to the individualist values of reflexive modernity by drawing on collective bonds within their families. It contends that the expansion of personal and professional choices does not always result in greater individualization but increases women's sense of responsibility for the consequences of their choices. As a result women's narratives of self are collective rather than individual projects, which are created in relationship with others. In this manner the book highlights the gender specific and culturally specific consequences of reflexive modernity in neo-liberal India.

ISBN: 9781137319227 (electronic bk.)

Source: 502894Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

227677
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

96803
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HQ1742 / .B45 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 305.48/22

Gender, class and reflexive modernity in India
LDR:02396cmm 2200325Ka 4500 001 129252
003 OCoLC
005 20130913034530.0
006 m o d
007 cr cnu---unuuu
008 151231s2013 enk o 000 0 eng d
020 $a 9781137319227 (electronic bk.)
020 $a 1137319224 (electronic bk.)
035 $a (OCoLC)857120738
035 $a ocn857120738
037 $a 502894 $b Palgrave Macmillan $n http://www.palgraveconnect.com
040 $a UKPGM $b eng $c UKPGM $d N$T
043 $a a-ii---
049 $a TEFA
050 4 $a HQ1742 $b .B45 2013
072 7 $a SOC $x 031000 $2 bisacsh
072 7 $a SOC $x 020000 $2 bisacsh
082 0 4 $a 305.48/22 $2 23
100 1 $a Belliappa, Jyothsna. $3 227768
245 1 0 $a Gender, class and reflexive modernity in India $h [electronic resource] / $c Jyothsna Belliappa.
260 $a [Basingstoke] : $c 2013. $b Palgrave Macmillan,
300 $a 1 online resource.
505 0 $a 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.
520 $a This book examines how middle class women in India engage with divergent cultural discourses of respectability and individualism to make sense of their work and family lives. Based on in-depth interviews amongst women employed in the Indian IT industry, it argues that women attempt to conform to the individualist values of reflexive modernity by drawing on collective bonds within their families. It contends that the expansion of personal and professional choices does not always result in greater individualization but increases women's sense of responsibility for the consequences of their choices. As a result women's narratives of self are collective rather than individual projects, which are created in relationship with others. In this manner the book highlights the gender specific and culturally specific consequences of reflexive modernity in neo-liberal India.
588 $a Description based on online resource; title from title details screen (Palgrave Connect, viewed Aug. 28, 2013).
650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies $2 bisacsh $3 227677
650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations $2 bisacsh $3 227676
650 0 $a Civilization, Modern. $3 221018
650 0 $a Middle class women $z India. $3 227769
655 4 $a Electronic books. $2 local. $3 96803
856 4 0 $3 Palgrave Connect $u http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137319227
994 $a C0 $b TEF