Hegemonic developments: The new Indian middle class, gendered subalterns, and diasporic returnees in the event of neoliberalism

Signs

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 127-152

  Bhatt, Amy ^a   Murty, Madhavi ^a   Ramamurthy, Priti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HISTORY; INDIA; LEGAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; GENDER IDENTITY; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; INDIA; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIAL MOBILITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; WOMEN, WORKING;

EID: 77958572942     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/652916     Document Type: Article

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