Women from Outside: Negotiating Spaces in the City

Using narratives that were collected as part of a survey and group discussions, the book focuses on women's experiences of finding accommodation, negotiating with landlords, interacting with roommates and colleagues, dealing with feelings of security and safety, and building friendships and fam...

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Published in:Economic and political weekly 2018-05, Vol.53 (19), p.25-28
Main Author: SUBRAMANIAN, SUJATHA
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cities
Ethnography
Narratives
Negotiations
Researchers
Studies
Utopias
Women
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Summary:Using narratives that were collected as part of a survey and group discussions, the book focuses on women's experiences of finding accommodation, negotiating with landlords, interacting with roommates and colleagues, dealing with feelings of security and safety, and building friendships and families, all within a city where they are outsiders. Though the book engages with literature on female migration, Chanda 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. Drawing on these instances, Chanda 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. The significance of a processual approach to understanding the self is also seen in the definition of self that Chanda adopts for the book, a definition adopted from Elspeth Probyn, who writes that "gender must be represented as processes that proceed through experience" (p 16). [...]gendering ideas of emancipation and empowerment entails that we read them through the many processes that contextualise the lives of women who are outsiders to the city.
ISSN:0012-9976
2349-8846