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Stitching identities in a free trade zone : gender and politics in Sri Lanka /

By analyzing how Sri Lankan free trade zone factory workers claim political subjectivity and revealing a vibrant subaltern political universe where they can express alternative perspectives, Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone challenges conventional notions about marginalized women at the bot...

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Main Author: Hewamanne, Sandya
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Free trade > Sri Lanka.
Sex role > Sri Lanka.
Women > Sri Lanka > Economic conditions.
Women > Sri Lanka > Social conditions.
Women migrant labor > Sri Lanka.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780812202250
0812202252
1283890763
9781283890762
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Nation, modernity, and female morality
  • On the shop floor
  • Loving daughters and politically active workers
  • Politics of everyday life
  • Performing disrespectability
  • FTZ clothes and home clothes
  • Made in Sri Lanka : globalization and the politics of location
  • Epilogue: Cautious voices.

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