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India's Working Women and Career Discourses
Society, Socialization, and Agency|
109,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Lexington Books |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 06.08.2014 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780739184783 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 256 |
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<span><span>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.</span></span>
<span><span>This book examines Indian women's perception of their work and family lives at the intersection of postmodernity and tradition through the lenses of society, socialization, and agency. In interviews with seventy-seven women, this book demonstrates how India’s daughters make personal and professional choices that privilege families over careers.</span></span>
<span><span>Chapter 1: Introduction<br>Chapter 2: The Materiality of Sociocultural Discourses<br>Chapter 3: Family Socialization and Career Discourses<br>Chapter 4: Constrained Agency and Communion<br>Chapter 5: Meanings of Work and Careers<br>Chapter 6: Conclusion<br>Appendixes<br>A: Research Methodology<br>B: Positionality and Field Research Experiences<br>C: Interview Guide<br>D: Profiles of Participants<br></span></span>
<span><span>This book examines Indian women's perception of their work and family lives at the intersection of postmodernity and tradition through the lenses of society, socialization, and agency. In face-to-face interviews with seventy-seven women across socio-economic statuses, occupations, generations, castes, and class categories, Suchitra Shenoy-Packer demonstrates how India’s dutiful daughters continue to make personal and professional choices that privilege families over careers while constructing personally meaningful career discourses.</span></span>
<span><span>Suchitra Shenoy-Packer</span><span> is assistant professor of organizational and multicultural communication at DePaul University.</span></span>
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