Nandini Hebbar <br/><br/>
Gender, caste, and class in South India's technical institutions 

 - Oxford:  Oxford University Press,  2024. 
 - xiii, 257p., bib., ind., 22 cm X 14 cm 
<br/><br/> Recommended by: Nandini hebbar N. 
<br/><br/> Content:<br/><br/>Introduction: The Engineering Mania<br/>The Contemporary Contexts of Engineering Education<br/>Family, Private Education, and the Modern Nation State<br/>Understanding Gender in Intersection With Class and Gender<br/>Sites and Methods<br/>The Chinna College of Technology<br/>Categories in the Field<br/>1 'Kinning' Education<br/>Genealogies of Private Engineering Colleges<br/>Patronage to Philanthropy: Technical Education Up to the 1960s Consolidation of the Private Model: 1970s to 1990s<br/>The IT Boom and Beyond: 1990s to the Present<br/>Conclusions<br/>2 'Edupreneurship': Mapping Management Practices<br/>Locating 'Big Men' in Gender and Community Formations<br/>Regional Patrons and Technocrats<br/>Education and Industrial Businesses<br/>Politics and Authority<br/>Construction of Expertise<br/>Edupreneurship as Capitalization of Resources<br/>Subjectivities in Higher Education<br/>Conclusions<br/>3 Becoming Professional: Dilemmas in Emerging 'Employable'<br/>The Placement Race<br/>Training to Get Ahead<br/>Learning a Professional Habitus 'Culture Shock'<br/>The Remaking of Self and Subjectivities<br/>Conclusion<br/>4 Manufacturing Respectability: Gendering the Engineering College Boom<br/>Young Women in Education<br/>Gendering Enrolment and Disciplines<br/>Gender in the Classroom<br/>Gendered Discourse and Performance<br/>In the Hostels<br/>The Boundaries of Friendship<br/>Conclusion<br/>5 Negotiating Intimate Risk: Gendered Subjectivities, Performativity, and Self-Making<br/>'Subjectivities of Suitability'<br/>Gendered Risk, Sociality, and Modes of Courtship<br/>Love, Self, and Shifting Meanings<br/>Gendered Dynamics and Relationship Trouble Conclusion<br/>6 Engineering Aspirations and Lives of Youth: Implications for Gender, Caste, and Class<br/>Caste and Its Networks<br/>Class Conundrums<br/>Gendered Hopes and Limits<br/>Implications for Studies of Youth 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780198914457 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label>--caste-based discrimination India Tamil Nadu--Engineering students India Tamil Nadu Social conditions--sex discrimination in higher education India Tamil Nadu--technical institutes India Tamil Nadu--technology: general issues
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.09548