Politics of precarity : Gendered subjects and the health care industry in contemporary Kolkata / Panchali Ray.

By:

Ray, Panchali [author.]

Publisher: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 265 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780199489763
0199489769

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

331.12916 RAY 23

LOC classification:

RT86.75.I4 R39 2019

Also issued as an ebook.

Contents:

Table of contents List of Tables Acknowledgement 1. Introduction: Re/productive Work, Affective Labour, and Health Care Services 2. Disciplining 'Seba': The 'Trained' Nurse in Colonial Bengal 3. The Nursing Labour Market, Contemporary Kolkata 4. The Matrix of the Family and the Market: (Hetero) Normative Economies 5. (Re) producing the 'Other': Spatialising (Un)touchability, Dirty work, and Inequalities 6. (Re) producing the 'Other': Stigmatised Lives, Unruly Dispositions, Sexual Transgressions 7. Narratives of Resistance: Whither Politics? Postscript Appendix Bibliography Index About the Author

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-259) and index.

Table of contents

List of Tables
Acknowledgement

1. Introduction: Re/productive Work, Affective Labour, and Health Care Services
2. Disciplining 'Seba': The 'Trained' Nurse in Colonial Bengal
3. The Nursing Labour Market, Contemporary Kolkata
4. The Matrix of the Family and the Market: (Hetero) Normative Economies
5. (Re) producing the 'Other': Spatialising (Un)touchability, Dirty work, and Inequalities
6. (Re) producing the 'Other': Stigmatised Lives, Unruly Dispositions, Sexual Transgressions
7. Narratives of Resistance: Whither Politics?

Postscript
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Also issued as an ebook.

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