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Author Chanda, Ipsita, author

Title Selfing the city : single women migrants and their lives in Kolkata / Ipshita Chanda
Published Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE, 2017
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Contents Introduction -- Entering the space: diversity through a gender lens -- The city: relations in urban space -- Inhabiting the city: the challenges -- A room in the city: constructing a private space -- Finding the "self" -- Friendships: creating a community -- The 'safe' city and outsider women -- The 'self' and the city: new roles -- The outsider and equitable social space
Summary Exploring the quest for 'self' in the city through migrant women's narratives
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 8, 2017)
Subject Women internal migrants -- India -- Kolkata -- Social conditions
Single women -- India -- Kolkata -- Social conditions
Women -- Identity.
Group identity -- India -- Kolkata
Urbanization -- Social aspects -- India -- Kolkata
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Group identity
Single women -- Social conditions
Urbanization -- Social aspects
Women -- Identity
India -- Kolkata
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789381345245
9381345244
9381345252
9789381345252