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Raka Ray's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Raka Ray is an American sociologist and academic. She is a full-time professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the departments of Sociology and Southeast Asian Studies. She became the Dean of Social Sciences at UC-Berkeley in January 2020. Ray's research interests include gender and feminist theory, postcolonial sociology, emerging middle classes, South Asia, inequality, qualitative research methods, and social movements. Her current project explores changes in the meanings and relations of servitude in India. Ray is also an editor of the publication Feminist Studies.

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Fields of protest : women's movements in India (2000) (194)
WOMEN'S MOVEMENTS IN THE THIRD WORLD: Identity, Mobilization, and Autonomy (1999) (149)
India's New Middle Class: Democratic Politics in an Era of Economic Reform (2008) (128)
Liberalization’s Children: Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India (2011) (125)
Elite and everyman : the cultural politics of the Indian middle classes (2011) (107)
Don't Marry Me to a Plowman! Women's Everyday Lives in Rural North India (1997) (85)
Two Faces of Protest: Contrasting Modes of Women's Activism in India.@@@Toward Empowerment: Women and Movement Politics in India. (1992) (78)
Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India (2009) (74)
Masculinity, Femininity, and Servitude: Domestic Workers in Calcutta in the Late Twentieth Century (2000) (66)
Social Movements in India: Poverty, Power, and Politics (2005) (65)
Women's Movements and Political Fields: A Comparison of Two Indian Cities (1998) (57)
Grappling with Modernity (2003) (47)
Fields of Protest: Women's Movements in India (2000) (41)
Cultures of Servitude (2020) (40)
Male Servants and the Failure of Patriarchy in Kolkata (Calcutta) (2010) (29)
Software and the 'New' Middle Class in the 'New India' (2011) (28)
Is the Revolution Missing or Are We Looking in the Wrong Places (2006) (18)
Fields of Protest (1999) (17)
Handbook of gender (2011) (17)
The Women's Movement in India Today-New Agendas and Old Problems (2000) (14)
The Contested Terrain of Reproduction: class and gender in schooling in India (1988) (11)
Connell and Postcolonial Sociology (2013) (8)
“The middle class”: Sociological category or proper noun? (2010) (7)
Postcoloniality and the Sociology of Gender (2018) (7)
Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating Community (2014) (5)
The subaltern, the postcolonial, and cultural sociology (2010) (5)
A case of internal colonialism? Arlie Hochschild's Strangers in Their Own Land (2017) (5)
Introduction: Perverse Politics? Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, Multiplicity (2016) (5)
COVID-19 at Home: Gender, Class, and the Domestic Economy in India (2020) (3)
The Social Life of Gender (2018) (2)
Perverse Politics? Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, Multiplicity (2016) (2)
Public agendas and women's interests : Organizing women in two Indian cities (1993) (1)
‘The Middle Class’ and the Middle Classes (2019) (1)
The politics of masculinity in the absence of work (2021) (1)
The Logic of Trans and The Logic of Place (2017) (1)
Feminism and the History of the Indian Nation (2004) (1)
Feminism and the Politics of Gender (2019) (1)
Feminist Theory: Two Decades after the Missing Revolution (2004) (1)
The Reconstitution of Gender in Contemporary Society:: A Roundtable Discussion (2004) (0)
Book Reviews (2001) (0)
Negotiating Risk in Intimate Labor: Domestic Workers and Night Nurses in Urban India (2014) (0)
The Contested Terrain of Reproduction (2021) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Purity and Communal Boundaries: Women and Social Change in a Bangladeshi Village.Santi Rozario (1993) (0)
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Discourse of Nationalism and Transnationalism in Political Mobilization:: A Roundtable Discussion (2003) (0)
The Women's Movements of the United States and Western Europe: Consciousness, Political Opportunity and Public Policy. Mary Fainsod Katzenstein , Carol McClurg MuellerWomen in Movement: Feminism and Social Action. Sheila RowbothamProgressive Women in Conservative Times: Racial Justice, Peace and Fem (1995) (0)

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