First April Luncheon Series Event: Negotiating Gender and Modernity in Urban India
This event has been cancelled. Rachel Fleming, PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at CU, will start off our April Luncheon Series events with a talk entitled "Negotiating Gender and Modernity in Urban India: Workplaces, Generational Change, and the Importance of Friendship for Professional Women in Bangalore."
As more Indian women enter workplaces in cities like Bangalore, especially in fields such as Information Technology, they are experiencing new dilemmas, lifestyles, and friendships that differ from previous generations. Based on several months of fieldwork in Bangalore and interviews with three generations of women, this talk presents conclusions about how women in this site understand and experience new work opportunities, gender interactions, attitudes about marriage, and changes in families, and how they come to rely on friends amidst rapid urban and social change in India.
This will be held on Thursday, April 3, at 12:00 p.m. in the CAS Conference Room, 1424 Broadway, CU-Boulder. We hope to see you there!