Amanda Gilbertson

Within the Limits

Moral Boundaries of Class and Gender in Urban India

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Delving into the social location of middle classes in India, this work explores what it means to be middle class in the south Indian city of Hyderabad. Taking into account aspects such as education, marriage, community values, and contemporary trends, the book highlights the centrality of moral discourses in the co-production of class and gender in urban India. Through the lens of moral respectability, the author discusses how middle class sensibilities are embraced and reproduced by the Hyderabadis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780199477425
• ISBN-10: 0199477426
• Artikelnr.: 48321985

Autorenporträt

Amanda Gilbertson, Lecturer in Youth and Contemporary India, Australia India Institute, University of Melbourne

Inhaltsangabe

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List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgement
Introduction: Defining the limits
1. Claiming the Moral Middle
2: Inculcating Cosmopolitanism
3: Cosmopolitan Castelessness
4: Respectable Women and Indian Families
5: Fashion, Passion, and Public Space
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author