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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465010903321

Titolo

Women, gender and everyday social transformation in India / / edited by Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Anne Waldrop [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2014

ISBN

1-78308-270-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 254 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Anthem South Asian Studies

Disciplina

305.40954

Soggetti

Women - India - Social conditions - 21st century

Women's rights - India

Man-woman relationships - India

India Social conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Sommario/riassunto

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.