Title India's working women and career discourses : society, socialization, and agency / Suchitra Shenoy-Packer.

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Description	1 online resource
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction -- The materiality of sociocultural discourses -- Family socialization and career discourses -- Constrained agency and communion -- Meanings of work and careers -- Conclusion.
Summary	This book examines Indian women''s perception of their work and family lives at the intersection of postmodernity and tradition through the lenses of society, socialization, and agency. In interviews with seventy-seven women, this book demonstrates how India's daughters make personal and professional choices that privilege families over careers.
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Subject	Women -- Employment -- India.
	Women -- Employment.
	India.
	Work and family -- India.
	Work and family.
	Sex discrimination in employment -- India.
	Sex discrimination in employment.
	Women -- India -- Social conditions.
	Women.
	Social conditions.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Subject	Women.
	Womyn.
Other Form:	Print version: Shenoy-Packer, Suchitra. India's working women and career discourses 9780739184776 (DLC) 2014016279 (OCoLC)877365339
ISBN	9780739184783 (electronic book)
	0739184784 (electronic book)
	9780739184776
	0739184776