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Author Chanda, Ipsita, author.

Title Selfing the city : single women migrants and their lives in Kolkata / Ipshita Chanda.

Publication Info. Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Women internal migrants -- India -- Kolkata -- Social conditions.
Women internal migrants.
India -- Kolkata.
Social conditions.
Single women -- India -- Kolkata -- Social conditions.
Single women.
Women -- Identity.
Women -- Identity.
Group identity -- India -- Kolkata.
Group identity.
Urbanization -- Social aspects -- India -- Kolkata.
Urbanization -- Social aspects.
Urbanization.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
ISBN 9789381345245 (electronic book)
9381345244 (electronic book)
9381345252
9789381345252
9788190676045
8190676040
9789381345252 (e book)