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Money, culture, class : elite women as modern subjects / Parul Bhandari

Bhandari, Parul [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019

xvii, 98 Seiten

Englisch

Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet (Rechtsgrundlage FID). Univ. Heidelberg, CATS, Südasi

978-0-8153-5888-6 (hardback)

978-1-351-12163-7 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2019017103

HN690.Z9

305.5/20954     Ähnliche Literatur

Fachinformationsdienst(e): FID-ASIEN-DE-16

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LOC-SH: Elite (Social sciences) -- India ; Women -- India ; Rich people -- India ; Social classes -- India

"Based on ethnographic research, this book explores the ways in which elite women use and view money in order to construct identities - of class, status, and gender. Drawing on their everyday worlds, it tracks the intricate and contested meanings they attach to money. Focusing on weddings, travel, and spirituality, Parul Bhandari delineates the entitlements and privileges as well as the obsessions and vulnerabilities that underlie the construction of class, the shaping of elite cultures, and the curating of femininity. As such, this book offers an innovative account of the interplay between money, modernity, class, and gender"--