Using in-depth interviews, this book explores women employed in the Indian IT industry and highlights the gender specific and culturally specific consequences of reflexive modernity in neo-liberal India.

1.Setting Out to Study Class and Gender in Contemporary India 2.- Interrogating Reflexive Modernity 3.- The 'New' Indian Middle Class Woman 4.- Individualism And Responsibility: Women's Relationships Within Their Families 5.- Women's Relationships with Paid Work in the Transnational Economy 6.- Managing Paid Employment and Family Life 7.- Relational Reflexivity, Individual Choice and Respectable Modernity.

Jyothsna Latha Belliappa is Associate Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Azim Premji University in India.