Using in-depth interviews, this book explores women employed in the Indian IT industry and highlights the gender specific and culturally specific consequences of reflexive modernity in neo-liberal India.

Autorentext
Jyothsna Latha Belliappa is Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Azim Premji University in India.

Inhalt
1.Setting Out to Study Class and Gender in Contemporary India 2.- Interrogating Reflexive Modernity 3.- The 'New' Indian Middle Class Woman 4.- Individualism And Responsibility: Women's Relationships Within Their Families 5.- Women's Relationships with Paid Work in the Transnational Economy 6.- Managing Paid Employment and Family Life 7.- Relational Reflexivity, Individual Choice and Respectable Modernity.