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Gender, Class and Reflexive Modernity in India (Hardcover, New)
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Gender, Class and Reflexive Modernity in India (Hardcover, New)
Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
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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.
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