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Grandmother, Mother and Daughter: Changing agency of Indian, middle-class women, 1908-2008

Waldrop, Anne
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Date
2011-08-30
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Waldrop, A. (2011). Grandmother, Mother and Daughter: Changing agency of Indian, middle-class women, 1908-2008. Modern Asian Studies, 46 (3), 601-638.   http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X11000448
Abstract
Covering one hundred years, this paper recounts the life stories of three

generations of middle-class women of the New Delhi-based Kapoor family. By

taking the methodological view that individuals born approximately at the same

time, within the same class segment, and at the same cultural place will be

shaped by the same historical structures so that their lives to some extent are

synchronized into a gendered, generational experience, these three life stories

are viewed as voices that reflect their respective generational class segments. In

view of this, the paper uses the three life stories to discuss changes in women’s

agency within the urban, educated, uppermiddle-class. Agency is here understood

as control over resources, and it is argued that in order to understand changes in

women’s agency, one should take into account the impact of both social, economic

structures and cultural ideologies. When analysing the three life stories, the

overall finding is that the granddaughter has had more control over her own

life than her mother and grandmother. However, by acknowledging that cultural

ideologies and social economic structures are not always synchronized, a nuanced

and many-dimensional picture of twists and turns in these middle-class women’s

degree and type of agency over time emerges.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Series
Modern Asian Studies;46 (3)

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