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India's Working Women and Career Discourses
Society, Socialization, and Agency
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2014
Summary
This study investigates Indian working women's sense of the discourses surrounding work and careers. In interviews conducted with seventy-seven women across socioeconomic statuses, castes, classes, and occupational and generational categories in the city of Pune, India, women express how feeling bound by tradition confronts excitement about ongoing changes in the country. The work lives of these women are influenced symbiotically by India's sociocultural practices and the contemporary phenomenon of globalization. Using feminist standpoint theory as a theoretical lens, Suchitra Shenoy-Packer explores how women deconstruct, coconstruct, and reconstruct systems of knowledge about their worlds of work as embedded within and influenced by the intersections of society, socialization, and individual agency. The meanings that Indian women associate with their work as well as their definition of a career in twenty-first-century India will be of interest to students and scholars of feminist theory, women's studies, globalization, Asian studies, and labor studies.
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Edition
1/2014
Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8477-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8478-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
221
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
1 Introduction No access Pages 1 - 38
2 The Materiality of Social Discourses No access Pages 39 - 66
3 Family Socialization and Career Discourses No access Pages 67 - 110
4 Constrained Agency and Communion No access Pages 111 - 138
5 Meanings of Work and Career No access Pages 139 - 162
6 Conclusion No access Pages 163 - 178
Appendix A: Research Methodology No access Pages 179 - 184
Appendix B: Positionality and Field Research Experiences No access Pages 185 - 200
Appendix C: Interview Guide No access Pages 201 - 202
Appendix D: Profiles of Participants No access Pages 203 - 206
