Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India

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.

Acknowledgements; Women and Gender in a Changing India; Part I: Work, Technology, Aspirations; 1. Today's 'Good Girl': The Women behind India's BPO Industry - Reena Patel; 2. Gender, Intersectionality and Smart Phones in Rural West Bengal - Sirpa Tenhunen; 3. The Introduction of Electricity in the Sunderban Islands: Conserving or Transforming Gender Relations? - Tanja Winther; 4. Changing Consumption and the Negotiation of Gender Roles in Kerala - Harold Wilhite; 5. Gender, Work and Social Change: Return Migration to Kerala - Berit Helene Vandsemb; 6. Showtime and Exposures in New India: The Revelations of Lucky Farmhouse - Nicol Foulkes and Stig Toft Madsen; Part II: Democracy and the Developmental State; 7. Gender and Democratisation: The Politics of Two Female Grassroots Activists in New Delhi - Stein Sundstøl Eriksen and Anne Waldrop; 8. The Reproductive Body and the State: Engaging with the National Rural Health Mission in Tribal Odisha - Arima Mishra and Sidsel Roalkvam; 9. A Veiled Change Agent: The 'Accredited Social Health Activist' in Rural Rajasthan - Dagrun Kyte Gjøstein; 10. Disciplining Gender and Gendering Discipline: Women's Studies in Contemporary India - Mallarika Sinha Roy; Part III: Assertions and Activism; 11. New Subalterns? Feminist Activism in an Era of Neoliberal Development - Srila Roy; 12. Family, Femininity, Feminism: 'Structures of Feeling' in the Articulation of Men's Rights - Romit Chowdhury; 13. Women's Activism in the Singur Movement, West Bengal - Kenneth Bo Nielsen; 14. The Women's Question and Indian Maoism - Lipika Kamra; 15. Caste and Class in Gendered Religion: Dalit Women in Chennai's Slums - Karin Kapadia; About the Editors and Contributors