Chanda, Ipsita

Selfing the city: single women migrants and their lives in Kolkata/ Ipshita Chanda - New Delhi: SAGE, 2017. - xi, 322 p.

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.

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Women--Identity
Single women--Social conditions
Urbanization--Social aspects
India--Kolkata
Group identity