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Narrating Lives/Labour: Documenting Domestic Labour in Kolkata

Authors :
Somdatta Bhattacharya
Source :
Life Writing. 14:519-530
Publication Year :
2017
Publisher :
Informa UK Limited, 2017.

Abstract

The article deals with my work of reading the ‘difficult lives’ of female domestic workers in the city of Kolkata, India. The institution of domestic servitude in the city of Kolkata has al...

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Subjects :
Literature and Literary Theory
Work (electrical)
Domestic labour
Reading (process)
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Women workers
Institution
Gender studies
Sociology
Genealogy
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ISSN :
17512964 and 14484528
Volume :
14
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Life Writing
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........b322f5076e01d0e26b41911b442cb1a3
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2017.1364175
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