Word: gendered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Have you become more aware of how gender operates in our society since writing these novels...
...will say that I'm more aware of how people think gender operates. Because of the way I was raised-by just my grandmother with no men in the house-I wasn't introduced to the idea of standard sex roles and gender biases. It was more important for me growing up to be able to lift that 50-pound bag of rock salt for my grandmother than if I was pretty or had nice-looking nails. One of the things I hope to show through my books is that there's no black and white when it comes...
...Changing notions of gender are a part of that. "The so-called techie lit or business-school books will all take you through a series of different notions of what it means to be a man in India," Bagchi says. Male protagonists struggle with a world that challenges them to break free of their parents' expectations: Will they be dutiful sons and find good jobs, or will they indulge in idealism and take risks? In one passage in Above Average, the character Arindam experiences an epiphany while playing in a band: "That first roll to the end of the song...
...experience in India," says Swati Kaushal, whose book about a young marketing exec was published in 2005. Neither Kaushal's book nor others that followed are feminist treatises, however. In fact, fictional heroines usually end up in love, if not wedlock. But the mere fact that the books raise gender-related issues makes them valuable. "There are a huge number of anxieties floating around young women," says the New Delhi publisher Gokhale. "It's very reassuring to read a funny and well-written novel in which you can see your own problems reflected...
...Gender relations are also different online, where young men and women flirt openly across the borders and obstacles that have been placed between them. In one internet cafe in Beddawi camp in northern Lebanon, one teenager leaned over to show me his girlfriend in Gaza, smiling out at him through a grainy, time-delayed webcam shot. Men and women can communicate with an ease and frankness that Palestinian social mores are less permissive of. In his IM window, the young Palestinian book-ended a flirtatious message to his Gazan girlfriend with a line of heart and angel icons. He flashed...