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City requiem, Calcutta : gender and the politics of poverty / Ananya Roy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roy, Ananya.
- Series:
- Globalization and community ; v. 10.
- Globalization and community ; v. 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poverty--India--Calcutta.
- Poverty.
- Poor women--India--Calcutta.
- Poor women.
- Women in development--India--Calcutta.
- Women in development.
- Calcutta (India)--Social conditions.
- Calcutta (India).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (302 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An ethnography of urban development in Calcutta, Ananya Roy's book explores the dynamics of class and gender in the persistence of poverty.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-277) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9358-7
- OCLC:
- 171126870
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