Date/Time
Date(s) - 15/06/2022
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location
Seminar Hall
Categories
Changes in Gender Relations in New Middle Class in India: A Few Case Studies
Abstract: Changes in Gender Relations in New Middle Class in India: A Few Case Studies The paper discusses changes in gender relations in the new middle classwith the help of a few case studies of the top-level workers in MNCs and other private industries based at Delhi-NCR. The paper also briefly dwells upon the historical category- middle class; modernity in Indian context; history of women’s question and emergence of new middle class in India after liberalization of the economy. With globalization has also come Late/ Reflexive/Liquid Modernity. Sites of this modernityespecially are media, mobility and work environment of new age jobs. Possibilities of change in gender relations is closely connected with new identity formation in the social environment of detradionalisation in the era of Late Modernity. The paper discusses through Bourdieu’s theory of social change the process of reformulation of gender identityas different from thatof the advocates of late Modernity.Case studies throw up several sites of changing gender relations and also where gender identity is more entrenched and even resilient, leading to uneven detradionalisation. It is an ongoing study. The paper also suggests a few areas of further research.]
Professor (Retired) Manjeet Bhatia
Guest Fellow, IIAS