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An increasing number of poor women in urban India work as maids in middle-class households. However, this sector of unorganized labour is characterized by extreme informality. Maids are not accorded their rightful status as workers either by the employers, their own families, the government, or traditional trade unions. Very little research has been done on them, especially the part-time female workers, each of whom services a number of households at a time. Most ...
This is the first of four readers for students of women’s studies, particularly for Masters’ level courses in women’s studies, and more generally across undergraduate and certificate courses as the concept of ‘gender’ has been introduced at all levels of curricula. The reader reflects many of the concerns that have come up in women’s studies across two decades. This first volume focuses on some of the major economic and social ...
Although the challenge to the hegemonic status of the institution of marriage in India is grabbing the limelight in popular media, it has received comparatively less attention in the social sciences. This path-breaking collection presents an analysis of marriage from historical, social, cultural, psychological and legal perspectives. Changes wrought by globalization, by information technology and by the increasing social visibility of queer life forms and ...
