Speaker to Look at Gender and Globalization Through the Lens of India's Middle Class

The Center for International Studies' lecture series on women and the global economy continues on Wednesday, April 4, with a talk by Leela Fernandes. The talk, titled “Gender and the Politics of Globalization: Reflections on India's New Middle Class,” will be delivered in Thomas 224 at 4:30 p.m.

Fernandes is an associate professor of political science and women's and gender studies at Rutgers University. Her most recent book, India's New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform (University of Minnesota Press, December 2006) examines the political implications that the rise of the Indian middle class has had for Indian democracy and the politics of globalization. She is also the author of Producing Workers: The Politics of Gender, Class and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mills (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997) and Transforming Feminist Practice: Non-Violence, Social Justice and the Possibilities of a Spiritualized Feminism (A. Lute Books, 2003). Her research interests lie at the intersection of the study of culture, gender and political economy. She has published numerous articles on labor, gender, cultural politics, nationalism, human rights and globalization, and has received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, American Institute for Indian Studies, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Science Research Council.

For more information, including an abstract, see the Center for International Studies' Web site.

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