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City requiem, Calcutta : gender and the politics of poverty / Ananya Roy.

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An ethnography of urban development in Calcutta, Ananya Roy's book explores the dynamics of class and gender in the persistence of poverty.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Roy, Ananya
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2003.
Series:	Globalization and community ; v. 10.
Subjects:	Poverty > India > Kolkata. Poor women > India > Kolkata. Women in development > India > Kolkata. Kolkata (India) > Social conditions. Poor women. Poverty. Social conditions Women in development. India > Kolkata.

Table of 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.