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Selfing the City: Single Women Migrants and Their Lives in Kolkata

by Ipshita Chanda
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9788190676045
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
  • Publisher: Sage Publications
  • Publisher Imprint: Sage Stree
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 340
  • Original Price: INR 1095.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 499 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Sociology / General

About the Book Exploring the quest for 'self' in the city through migrant women's narratives This ethnographical study explores the process of migration and its economic, social and psychological dimensions, throwing light on the connection between middle-class women migrants and city spaces. The study is based on a survey, discussions and interviews, and highlights the emergence of a gendered citizen in an unknown and then gradually made-known or 'selfed' city. Through their narratives, these women share their experiences of the emergence of the embodied 'self' while negotiating a modern urban space. This includes challenging existing notions of empowerment, intimacy and security, suggesting how what women need brings forth changes in themselves and in the process shapes the future of cities.

Chanda, Ipshita: -

Ipshita Chanda is Professor at the Department of Comparative Literature, English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. She has been ICCR Visiting Professor of Indian Culture, Georgetown University (2013-14). A member of the Faculty Team in the International Faculty Exchange Programme of the Virginia Council for International Education and the Virginia Community College System, 2008-09, she has written extensively in books/journals including the edited volume Shaping the Discourse: Women's Writings in Bengali Periodicals: 1865-1947 (Stree, 2014); Packaging Freedom: Feminism and Popular Culture (Stree, 2003). She is also a SAGE author.

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