Title City requiem, Calcutta : gender and the politics of poverty / Ananya Roy

Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 288 pages) : illustrations Series Globalization and community ; v. 10 Globalization and community ; v. 10. Contents Preface; 1. Opening Moves; 2. The Politics of Poverty; 3. Domestications; 4. Dreaming of Tombstones; 5. Disruptions; Postscript(s); Methodological Appendix: Research Strategies and Data Sources; Notes; Bibliography; Index Summary An ethnography of urban development in Calcutta, Ananya Roy's book explores the dynamics of class and gender in the persistence of poverty Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-277) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Poverty -- India -- Kolkata Poor women -- India -- Kolkata Women in development -- India -- Kolkata SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Poor women Poverty Social conditions Women in development Armut Frau SUBJECT Kolkata (India) -- Social conditions Subject India -- Kolkata Kalkutta Form Electronic book ISBN 9780816693580 0816693587 9780816639328 0816639329 9780816639335 0816639337

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