Being middle-class in India : a way of life / / edited by Henrike Donner

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (231 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.5/509540905
• Soggetto topico: Middle class - India - History - 21st century; Middle class families - India - Social conditions; Social mobility - India
• Soggetto geografico: India Social life and customs 21st century
• Altri autori: DonnerHenrike
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Being Middle-class in India: A way of life; Copyright; Contents; Figures and table; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Masculinity, advertising and the reproduction of the middle-class family in Western India, 1918-1940; 2 Gendered bodies, domestic work and perfect families: New regimes of gender and food in Bengali middle-class lifestyles; 3 'Keeping in the family': Work, education and gender hierarchies among Tiruppur's industrial capitalists; 4 Cultural contrations and intergenerational relations: The consturction of selfhood among middle-class youth in Baroda ; 5 Globalization, neoliberalism and middle-class cultural politics in Kolkata6 The social transformation of the medical profession in urban Kerala: Doctors, social mobility and the middle classes; 7 Kitty-parties and middle-class femininity in New Delhi; 8 Zara hatke ('somewhat different'): The new middle classes and the changing forms of Hindi cinema; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Hailed as the beneficiary, driving force and result of globalisation, India's middle-class is puzzling in its diversity, as a multitude of traditions, social formations and political constellations manifest contribute to this project. This book looks at Indian middle-class lifestyles through a number of case studies, ranging from a historical account detailing the making of a savvy middle-class consumer in the late colonial period, to saving clubs among women in Delhi's upmarket colonies and the dilemmas of entrepreneurial families in Tamil Nadu's industrial towns.The book pays tribu
• Titolo autorizzato: Being middle-class in India
• ISBN: 1-280-87365-5; 1-136-51340-X; 9786613714961; 1-136-51339-6; 0-203-14853-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910971881103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; ; 53.