[Grovenet] India Discussion Part of Women's History Month at Pacific University

[Cecelia Warner]

The Center for Gender Equity and the Feminist Studies Program are  
pleased to invite you to celebrate Women’s History Month 2008 with a  
public discussion of:

“PROFESSIONAL WOMEN, GOOD FAMILIES: RESPECTABLE FEMININITY AND THE  
CULTURAL POLITICS OF A ‘NEW’ INDIA.”

Presenter:   Smitha Radhakrishnan Ph.D. (Wellesley College)
Place:         McGill Auditorium, Pacific University (go to  
pacificu.edu for map)
Date:          Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Time:          4:00 to 6:00 p.m.

This discussion of professional “software” women in urban India  
examines practices of respectable femininity and discourses of the  
Indian family. It seeks to understand the changing and abiding aspects  
of India’s “new” middle-class culture.

Legacies of colonial and nationalist constructs of the Indian home and  
the middle-class women who protected that home continue to shape  
everyday notions of national belonging, even as they are transformed  
through individual negotiations.

Drawing from extensive interviews and ethnographic work, Dr.  
Radhakrishnan analyzes the interplay of gender, class, and nation in  
contemporary urban India.

Refreshments/Reception following the presentation.

Free and open to the public.