Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka : Gender, Neoliberalism, and the Politics of Contentment /

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 co...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Hewamanne, Sandya (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]
Collection:Contemporary ethnography.
Sujets:
Women migrant labor > Sri Lanka.
Return migrants > Sri Lanka.
Women > Sri Lanka > Economic conditions.
Women > Sri Lanka > Social conditions.
Neoliberalism > Social aspects > Sri Lanka.
Women > Identity.
Sex role > Sri Lanka.
Free trade > Sri Lanka.
Travailleuses migrantes > Sri Lanka.
Femmes > Sri Lanka > Conditions économiques.
Femmes > Sri Lanka > Conditions sociales.
Néo-libéralisme > Aspect social > Sri Lanka.
Femmes > Identité.
Rôle selon le sexe > Sri Lanka.
Libre-échange > Sri Lanka.
Immigrants de retour > Sri Lanka.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Free trade
Return migrants
Sex role
Women > Economic conditions
Women > Identity
Women migrant labor
Women > Social conditions
Sri Lanka
Anthropology.
Folklore.
Linguistics.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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