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

Sandya Hewamanne's Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone analyzed how female factory workers in Sri Lanka's free trade zones challenged conventional notions about marginalized women at the bottom of the global economy. In Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka Hewamanne now follows...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Contemporary Ethnography
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of 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