India's Working Women and Career Discourses: Society, Socialization, and Agency

India's Working Women and Career Discourses: Society, Socialization, and Agency

by Suchitra Shenoy-Packer
India's Working Women and Career Discourses: Society, Socialization, and Agency

India's Working Women and Career Discourses: Society, Socialization, and Agency

by Suchitra Shenoy-Packer

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780739184783
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication date: 08/06/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 640 KB

About the Author

Suchitra Shenoy-Packer is assistant professor of organizational and multicultural communication at DePaul University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Materiality of Sociocultural Discourses
Chapter 3: Family Socialization and Career Discourses
Chapter 4: Constrained Agency and Communion
Chapter 5: Meanings of Work and Careers
Chapter 6: Conclusion
Appendixes
A: Research Methodology
B: Positionality and Field Research Experiences
C: Interview Guide
D: Profiles of Participants
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