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

By: Publisher: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 265 pages. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780199489763 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.12916 RAY
Contents:
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
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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