Lexington Books
Pages: 254
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Trim: 6½ x 9
978-1-4985-9224-6 • Hardback • July 2019 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
978-1-4985-9225-3 • eBook • July 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
U. Kalpagam is professor at the Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science Institute of the University of Allahabad. She has authored Rule By Numbers: Governmentality in Colonial India.
Chapter 1: Neoliberalism and Women in India: A Framework
Chapter 2: Microcredit and the Making of Entrepreneurial Selves
Chapter 3: Neoliberal Urbanism, Governing Practices and Women
Chapter 4: The Neoliberal Citizen and the Gendered “Medical Subject”
Chapter 5: Aging and the Governmentality of the Aged
Chapter 6: Lifestyling Feminism: Fashion, Consumerism and Women
Chapter 7: Mapping the Women’s Movement in India Today
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Neoliberalism and Women in India explores a complex subject with expertise and insight. Dr Kalpagam assembles a range of theoretical perspectives on governmentality, which are brought together with empirical analyses of women’s lives in five key areas, namely microcredit, urban reconstruction, health, aging and consumerism to offer a lucid and thoroughly researched analysis of globalization and its effects in contemporary India. This is likely to become an indispensable reference book for those working in gender, development and studies of neo-liberalism and globalization in the Indian sub-continent.
— Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, New York University