Selfing the City: Single Women Migrants and Their Lives

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ISBN 9788190676045|Hardback|340 pages|2017|SAGE, Stree

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.

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ISBN 9788190676045|Hardback|340 pages|2017|SAGE, Stree

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.

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This ethnographical study based on a survey, discussions and interviews highlights the emergence of a gendered citizen in an unknown and then gradually made-known or ‘selfed’ city. It 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.

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.

Author:

Ipshita Chanda

ISBN:

9788190676045

Publisher:

SAGE, Stree

Binding:

Hardback

Pages:

340

Year of Publication:

2017

Edition:

First

Condition:

New

Country of Origin:

India

About the Author

The author 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).

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