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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. The study is based on a survey, discussions and interviews, and highlights the emergence of a gendered citizen in an unknown and then gradually made-known or ‘selfed’ city.
Through their narratives, these women share their experiences of the emergence of ...
Chanda presents a survey taken of middle class women like herself in two cities, Calcutta and Jamshedpur, in three languages, English, Bangla and Hindi, who picked texts from the popular media that represented their lives and belief systems. Ipshita Chanda suggests provocatively that it is in popular culture that the discourses of modernity, feminism and progress, all articulated by the women’s movement, become lived realities. Looking at popular women’s ...