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Author introduce the concept of `selfing' to look at how women negotiate with the unknown space of the city, arguing that one's experience with both the material and the affective dimensions of the space one inhabits. The book focuses on women experience of finding accommodation, negotiating with landlords, interacting with roommates and colleages, dealing with the feeling of security and safety, and building friendship and families, all within the cities where they are outsiders. Book engages with literature on female migration, Chandra states that, other than sections where information on employment and movement Is provided, she does not use the term `migrant' to refer to the women in her study. Author refers to the women in her study through the more evocative phases women who comes from outside. Drawing from her respondent's question of whether a primary dislocation form home apparently leads to lifelong perception of a self-constructed a being `outside' established circuits and circles. Chandra's attempt to challenge the degendered subject of ethnography is most visible in her formulations of power and emancipation. She writes that in looking at women experience as outsiders in the city, her attempt is to understand the extent to which women have been able to achieve emancipation. Chandra states that the feminist struggle for equal employment opportunities cannot remain limited to employment alone, and must take into account the social changes caused by women's entry into the workforce. -- Economic & Political Weekly, 12 May 2018 All in all this is a fascinating book. When worldly occurrences in everyday life are underpinned with relevant theoretical aspects, we enter a myriad world of profound learning. I salute the author for bringing a rare subject to life in all its glory. It is a difficult book to read but the rewards are genuine and lasting. -- Free Press Journal, 23 July 2017

All in all this is a fascinating book. When worldly occurrences in everyday life are underpinned with relevant theoretical aspects, we enter a myriad world of profound learning. I salute the author for bringing a rare subject to life in all its glory. It is a difficult book to read but the rewards are genuine and lasting. -- Free Press Journal, 23 July 2017

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Ipshita Chanda 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). She is also a SAGE author.

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