The pace of socioeconomic transformation in India over the past
two and a half decades has been formidable. This volume sheds light
on key processes of gendered change by exploring how
macro-structural processes of social transformation interface with
everyday life-worlds to generate new contestations and
contradictions that impinge directly on the everyday lives of
ordinary Indian women, and on the relations between genders.
Through ethnographically grounded case studies, the
contradictory and contested co-existence of discrepant gendered
norms, values and visions in a society caught up in wider processes
of sociopolitical change are portrayed. Women, Gender and Everyday
Social Transformation in India moves the debate on gender and
transformation into the domain of everyday life to arrive at
locally embedded and detailed, ethnographically informed analyses
of gender relations in real-life contexts that foreground both
subtle and not-so-subtle negotiations and contestations.
The chapters take the reader inside the university classroom as
well as the NGO, the urban slum and the rural health clinic; they
visit the Pentecostal church, the call centre and the beaches of
Goa; they venture into the men s rights group, the court room and
the anti-land acquisition rally; they engage with Maoist writings
and the ideology of neoliberal governance and they analyse the use
of grinders, mixers, make-up, smart phones and solar photovoltaic
mini-grids to name but a few."
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