Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in IndiaKenneth Bo Nielsen, Anne Waldrop The pace of socioeconomic transformation in India over the past two and a half decades has been formidable. This volume sheds light on how these transformations have played out at the level of everyday life to influence the lives of Indian women, and gender relations more broadly. Through ethnographically grounded case studies, the authors portray the contradictory and contested co-existence of discrepant gendered norms, values and visions in a society caught up in wider processes of sociopolitical change. ‘Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India’ moves the debate on gender and social 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. |
Contents
The Women behind Indias | 21 |
Chapter Four Changing Consumption and the Negotiation | 63 |
The Politics | 105 |
Engaging | 123 |
The Accredited Social | 139 |
Chapter Eleven New Subalterns? Feminist Activism in an | 175 |
Structures of Feeling | 189 |
Chapter Thirteen Womens Activism in the Singur Movement West Bengal | 203 |
Chapter Fourteen The Womens Question and Indian Maoism | 219 |
Dalit Women | 235 |
About the Editors and Contributors | 251 |
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