Romit Chowdhury

City of Men

Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport

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Produktbeschreibung

How do men experience gender in the city? Through descriptions of autorickshaw and taxi operators and their interactions with traffic police and commuters in Kolkata, India, this book highlights the gendered logics of cooperation and everyday morality through which masculinities take up space in cities.    

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 54g
• ISBN-13: 9781978829510
• ISBN-10: 1978829515
• Artikelnr.: 66405385

Autorenporträt

ROMIT CHOWDHURY is a senior lecturer in sociology at Erasmus University College in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is the co-editor with Z.A. Baset of Men and Feminism in India.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: City of Men
1.         The Urban Landscape of Public Transport
2.         Sociable Infrastructures: Autorickshaws
3.         Unaccustomed Streets: Taxis
4.         Homosocial Trust: Traffic Police
5.         City Characters: Morality
Conclusion: Urbanizing Masculinity Studies
Acknowledgments
References
Index