Raka Ray is Associate Professor in
the Departments of Sociology and South & Southeast Asian Studies,
Sarah Kailath Chair in India Studies and Chair of the Center for South
Asia Studies. She received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison
in 1993. Her research interests include gender, women's movements in the
third world, cultures of domestic servitude, qualitative research methods,
political sociology, and South Asia.
Link
to Professor Ray's Sociology webpage
Recent Publications:
Books:
In progress (with Seemin Qayum)“They Don’t Love
Us Any More” Cultures of Servitude in Post-colonial India and New
York
In progress Edited volume with Mary Katzenstein, Rethinking
Class and Poverty: Social
Movements in India in a Transnational Age
1999 Fields of Protest: Women’s Movements in India.
University of Minnesota
Press. Published in India by Kali for Women, 2000.
Articles:
2003 (with Seemin Qayum) “Grappling with Modernity:
Calcutta’s
Respectable Classes and the Culture of Domestic Servitude” Ethnography
4:4 (forthcoming)
2002 “Where Women Bore the Brunt” The Hindu,
May 11.
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2002/05/11/stories/2002051101221300.htm
2001 “The Burden of History: Women’s Movements
in the Third World” for
"Geschlechterverhaeltnisse und soziale Bewegungen" (Gender and
Social
Movements) of the Forschungsjournal Neue Soziale Bewegungen 2, June.
2000 “Masculinity, Femininity And Servitude: Domestic
Workers in Calcutta
in the Late Twentieth Century” Feminist Studies 26(3)
1999 “Women’s Movements in the Third World:
Identity, Mobilization and
Autonomy” with Anna C. Korteweg, for Annual Review of Sociology
25:47-71.
1998 “Women’s Movements and Political Fields:
A Comparison of Two Indian Cities” Social Problems 45 (1).
