narratives of three generations of urban middle-class - eTheses ...

Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1- INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................... 1
The ‘Why’ of the Research: ....................................................................................................... 1
The ‘What’ of the Research: ...................................................................................................... 9
CHAPTER 2 – REVIEW OF LITERATURE .................................................................................13
Intimacy and Industrialization: .............................................................................................17
Intimacy and Hetero-normativity: ........................................................................................19
Intimacy and Individualization: ............................................................................................24
‘Transformation of Intimacy’ and ‘De-traditionalization of Intimacy’ Reconsidered
through ‘Connectedness Thesis’ ............................................................................................28
Intimacy and Friendship: ........................................................................................................32
a) Intimacy and Male Homosociality: ............................................................................34
b) Intimacy and Female Homosociality: ...................................................................37
The Political Implications of Post-Colonial Feminism: .....................................................41
Foucauldian, Interactionist and Post-Colonial Feminist Perspectives: .........................46
Bourdieusian Analysis of Class-Culture: The Bengali Middle ‘Class Distinction’ : ......52
The ‘Woman Question’ at the Juncture of Colonialist and Nationalist Discourses:.....57
Modernity: A New Language of Family, Conjugality and Love: ........................................62
The Post-Colonial Context: .....................................................................................................64
CHAPTER 3- METHODOLOGY ...................................................................................................69
The ‘Cultural’, ‘Narrative’, ‘Linguistic’ and ‘Interpretivist’ Turns:..................................71
The Ethnographic: ....................................................................................................................74
The ‘Why’ of Narrative: ...........................................................................................................77
The ‘How’ of Narrative: ...........................................................................................................81
Description of the Research Process, Sample Makeup, Modes of Interviews and
Ethical Considerations: ...........................................................................................................85
Method of Analysis: ................................................................................................................102
CHAPTER-4 NARRATIVES OF MALE HOMOSOCIAL INTIMACY: CONSTRUCTING AND
NEGOTIATING MASCULINITIES .............................................................................................109
‘Adda’: Public, Male, Middle-Class Intimacy: .....................................................................110
Adda and Narratives of Masculine Nostalgia: ...................................................................112
Adda, Bhadralok, Bhadrasamaj and its Modernity: .........................................................114
Friendship and Kinship: ........................................................................................................122