Sociology of Gender in India

Pushpesh Kumar is Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad, India. His research focuses on queer movement, queer religion, transgender-mobilization, queer consumerism and Marxism and queer theory. Rituparna Patgiri is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati. Her research interests include digital sociology, pedagogy, sociology of culture, sociology of food, sociology of gender, sociology of media. Deepali Aparajita Dungdung is Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, Ranchi University, India. Her areas of interest include gender, migration, labour and work.

• List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1. Sociology of Gender in India Pushpesh Kumar, Rituparna Patgiri and Deepali Aparajita Dungdung; Part I. Culture, Gender and Politics: 2. Right-Wing Women: The Life and Times of Aparna Ramtirthkar Swati Dyahadroy; 3. 'Our Culture'! Diversity on the Site of Family Anagha Tambe; 4. 'Balika Shiksha': Reflections on a Guided Text to 'Bharatiya' Girlhood Shilpi Shikha Phukan; Part II. Caste, Household, Kinship and Marriage: 5. Dwelling Separately under the Same Roof: Matrilineal Households of Malabar Muslims Aleena Sebastian; 6. Childfree Married Women: Contesting Traditional Gender Roles Jagriti Gangopadhyay and Akanksha Sridhara; 7. Caste and Gender through Ethical Practices of Bhumihar Women in Bihar Vandana Rai; Part III. Media, Performance and the Everyday; 8. 'You're a Big Boy, Stop Crying!': Childhood and Performance in Music Reality Shows Sabiha Mazid; 9. Beyond the 'Goddess': Women Velichappads in Kerala Gayatri Balu; Part IV. Approaches and Research Methods: 10. A Labour Process Approach to Social Reproduction Aardra Surendran; 11. Privilege Doesn't always Protect: Discourses of Respectful Maternal Care Sreeparna Chattopadhyay; 12. Making a Case for Quantitative Methods Sherin Sabu; 13. Fictions and Fantasies in the Understanding of Kinship Anindita Majumdar; 14. Doing Autoethnography: Towards the Self as Epistemologically Significant Anurekha Chari-Wagh; Part V. Datafication, Digital Spaces and the New Economy: 15. Gender and Class Dynamics in Gig Work Gayatri Nair; 16. Urbanisation, Security and Social Media Networks Pratichi Majumdar; 17. Femtech Apps, Quantified Reproduction and Biopolitics Paro Mishra and Shambhawi Vikram; Part VI. Marginalities and Migrations: 18. Lungis and Trousers: Dressing and Hybrid Masculinity Amongst Miya Men of Assam Sampurna Das; 19. Dominant School Practices and Everyday Life of Marginalized Students: Studying a Government School in Assam Gargi Gayan; 20. Gender and Transnationalism: Identity Making Among 'Bengali' Migrant Women in Odisha Chandrika Ray and Tanaya Mohanty; Part VII. Sexuality and Queer Studies; 21. Okay, Cupid: Configurations of Digital Dating in Contemporary Urban India Pranoo Deshraju; 22. Queering Infrastructures: Queer Necropolitics to Emancipatory Politics of Higher Education Sayantan Datta.