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Restitching identities in rural Sri Lanka : gender, neoliberalism, and the politics of contentment / Sandya Hewamanne.
De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hewamanne, Sandya, author.
- Series:
- Contemporary ethnography.
- Contemporary ethnography
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women migrant labor--Sri Lanka.
- Women migrant labor.
- Sri Lanka.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (204 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Continuing her earlier work on women free-trade-zone factory workers in Sri Lanka, Sandya Hewamanne here explores the ways in which these women negotiate their social and economic lives once back in their villages and highlights the complex effects of globalization and transnational production on communities in the Global South.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Chapter 1. Global in the Villages: Politics of Contentment
- Chapter 2. Pure Girls! Don't Open the Door
- Chapter 3. Industrious and Obedient Daughters- in- Law
- Chapter 4. Superwomen and Lazy Lalies: Villages Adjusting to Successful Former Workers
- Chapter 5. Sex in the Village: Subversive Sexualities Abandoned?
- Chapter 6. The Strange, the Crazy, and the Stubborn
- Chapter 7. I Do Not Want to Be Rich and Lonely: Politics of Contentment
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780812297331
- 0812297334
- OCLC:
- 1195819293
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