Paro Mishra
Biographic Data
| ID | 3938360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paro Mishra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paro |
| FAMILY NAME | Mishra |
| SIGNATURE | MISHRA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1104-1022 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sociology of Gender in India: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives
Sociology of Gender in India brings together feminist and queer scholarship to chart the changing landscape of gender debates in Indian Sociology. Spanning over five decades of disciplinary evolution, this volume interrogates how gender, caste, sexuality, class, and digitalization intersect in shaping contemporary social life. With essays by a new generation of scholars, it critically engages with foundational debates in kinship, marriage, labour…
Stratified Ageing: A Critical Analysis of Market-based Care Institutions for Older Adults in India
Market-based care institutions for older adults reconfigure care as a commodity and facilitate a broader shift from embedded familial modes of ageing to more individuated and corporatised forms of ageing in place. These institutions are better understood as infrastructures of care that operate through an assemblage of material, organisational, and relational systems. In the process, they script newer formulations of what constitutes legitimate an…
Femtech apps and quantification of the reproductive body in India: Issues and concerns
This article examines datafication of the reproductive body in India through use of femtech mobile phone applications (henceforth, apps). Femtech apps quantify reproductive processes such as periods, conception, pregnancy and hormonal health and promise their users greater 'self-awareness' and 'control' through 'self-management'. Most studies on femtech refer to users in the Global North, while there are few studies on femtech adoption in the dev…
Reena Kukreja. Why Would I Be Married Here? Marriage Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India
Why Would I Be Married Here? Marriage, Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India is a welcome addition to the small but steadily growing literature on cross-region marriage migration in India, also referred to as long-distance marriage migration. The book examines the growing migration of rural women from eastern, southern, and northeastern parts of India to northern and northwestern states for the purpose of marriage. Anyone familiar with …
Datafied body projects in India: Femtech and the rise of reproductive surveillance in the digital era
This article examines the growing industry of digital self-tracking technologies designed for the female body, popularly known as femtech. Focusing mainly on reproductive technologies and applications, it situates femtech within the broader historical context of excluding women from research on medicine and clinical trials. Approaching femtech as datafied body projects, we argue that, even though these digital reproductive health technologies enh…
Entanglements of reproductive practices in India: Sex ratios, fertility, birthing and new reproductive technologies
Gender Imbalance, Marriage Squeeze and Multiple Biological Clocks: Exploring Challenges to the Intergenerational Contract in North India
This paper maps the impact of gender imbalance on intergenerational relations in north India. It uses the idea of multiple biological clocks to understand the impact that gender imbalance and male marriage squeeze have on two categories of persons: 'overage' unmarried sons and their aging parents, and the inter-generational contract between them within the family-household. De-linking the idea of the biological clock from the female body, this pa…
Datafied body projects in India: Femtech and the rise of reproductive surveillance in the digital era
This article examines the growing industry of digital self-tracking technologies designed for the female body, popularly known as femtech. Focusing mainly on reproductive technologies and applications, it situates femtech within the broader historical context of excluding women from research on medicine and clinical trials. Approaching femtech as datafied body projects, we argue that, even though these digital reproductive health technologies enh…
Femtech apps and quantification of the reproductive body in India: Issues and concerns
This article examines datafication of the reproductive body in India through use of femtech mobile phone applications (henceforth, apps). Femtech apps quantify reproductive processes such as periods, conception, pregnancy and hormonal health and promise their users greater 'self-awareness' and 'control' through 'self-management'. Most studies on femtech refer to users in the Global North, while there are few studies on femtech adoption in the dev…
Gender Imbalance, Marriage Squeeze and Multiple Biological Clocks: Exploring Challenges to the Intergenerational Contract in North India
This paper maps the impact of gender imbalance on intergenerational relations in north India. It uses the idea of multiple biological clocks to understand the impact that gender imbalance and male marriage squeeze have on two categories of persons: 'overage' unmarried sons and their aging parents, and the inter-generational contract between them within the family-household. De-linking the idea of the biological clock from the female body, this pa…
Datafied body projects in India: Femtech and the rise of reproductive surveillance in the digital era
This article examines the growing industry of digital self-tracking technologies designed for the female body, popularly known as femtech. Focusing mainly on reproductive technologies and applications, it situates femtech within the broader historical context of excluding women from research on medicine and clinical trials. Approaching femtech as datafied body projects, we argue that, even though these digital reproductive health technologies enh…
Entanglements of reproductive practices in India: Sex ratios, fertility, birthing and new reproductive technologies
Gender Imbalance, Marriage Squeeze and Multiple Biological Clocks: Exploring Challenges to the Intergenerational Contract in North India
This paper maps the impact of gender imbalance on intergenerational relations in north India. It uses the idea of multiple biological clocks to understand the impact that gender imbalance and male marriage squeeze have on two categories of persons: 'overage' unmarried sons and their aging parents, and the inter-generational contract between them within the family-household. De-linking the idea of the biological clock from the female body, this pa…
Reena Kukreja. Why Would I Be Married Here? Marriage Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India
Why Would I Be Married Here? Marriage, Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India is a welcome addition to the small but steadily growing literature on cross-region marriage migration in India, also referred to as long-distance marriage migration. The book examines the growing migration of rural women from eastern, southern, and northeastern parts of India to northern and northwestern states for the purpose of marriage. Anyone familiar with …
Femtech apps and quantification of the reproductive body in India: Issues and concerns
This article examines datafication of the reproductive body in India through use of femtech mobile phone applications (henceforth, apps). Femtech apps quantify reproductive processes such as periods, conception, pregnancy and hormonal health and promise their users greater 'self-awareness' and 'control' through 'self-management'. Most studies on femtech refer to users in the Global North, while there are few studies on femtech adoption in the dev…
Sociology of Gender in India: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives
Sociology of Gender in India brings together feminist and queer scholarship to chart the changing landscape of gender debates in Indian Sociology. Spanning over five decades of disciplinary evolution, this volume interrogates how gender, caste, sexuality, class, and digitalization intersect in shaping contemporary social life. With essays by a new generation of scholars, it critically engages with foundational debates in kinship, marriage, labour…
Stratified Ageing: A Critical Analysis of Market-based Care Institutions for Older Adults in India
Market-based care institutions for older adults reconfigure care as a commodity and facilitate a broader shift from embedded familial modes of ageing to more individuated and corporatised forms of ageing in place. These institutions are better understood as infrastructures of care that operate through an assemblage of material, organisational, and relational systems. In the process, they script newer formulations of what constitutes legitimate an…
Sociology (5 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Reproductive health (3 works) · Technoscience (3 works) · Autonomy (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (2 works) · Law (2 works)