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Social class plays a critical role in these analyses.

Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China

Author

Charlie Yi Zhang

Description

Uses a feminist intersectional approach to examine how the Chinese government uses concepts of love to control the population, reinforce inequalities, build a cheap labor market, and consolidate power.

Year

2022

Being Single in India: Stories of Gender, Exclusion, and Possibility

Author

Sarah Lamb

Description

Based on seven years of fieldwork in West Bengal with 54 women aged 35–92 who have never married.

Year

2022

Best Laid Plans: Women Coming of Age in Uncertain Times

Author

Jessica Halliday Hardie

Description

Based on interviews with 61 black and white young women from poor, working-class, and middle-class backgrounds in the United States who intended to pursue jobs in health fields. High school juniors and seniors were interviewed in 2008, and 41 of these women were also interviewed in 2013 and 2014 when they were 21–24 years old.

Year

2022

Mothering while Black: Boundaries and Burdens of Middle-Class Parenthood

Author

Dawn Marie Dow

Description

Based on interviews with 60 middle-class and upper-middle-class African American mothers in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Year

2019

Intimate Strangers: Shin Issei Women and Contemporary Japanese American Community, 1980–2020

Author

Tritia Toyota

Description

Focuses on middle-class and lower-middle-class women in their 20s who migrated to southern California during the 1980s primarily because they could not find suitable jobs in Japan.

Year

2023

Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India

Author

Rupal Oza

Description

Examines how sexual violence affects social status and how survivors and perpetrators become a separate social group.

Year

2023

Pregnant at Work: Low-Wage Workers, Power, and Temporal Injustice

Author

Elise Andaya

Description

Based on interviews with 55 pregnant workers in service industries and fieldwork at a New York City public hospital's prenatal clinic that primarily serves African American and Latinx patients.

Year

2024

Privileges of Birth: Constellations of Care, Myth, and Race in South Africa

Author

Jennifer J. M. Rogerson

Description

Focuses on pregnant women who can afford to employ midwives for private home births.

Year

2020

The Reproduction of Inequality: How Class Shapes the Pregnant Body and Infant Health

Author

Katherine Mason

Description

Based on interviews with women in Florida and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Year

2023

Beyond Religion in India and Pakistan: Gender and Caste, Borders and Boundaries

Author

Virinder S. Kalra and Navtej K. Purewal

Description

Examines the complex interplay between caste and religion in Punjab.

Year

2020