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Michele Ruth Gamburd

The Kitchen Spoon's Handle - Transnationalism and Sri Lanka's Migrant Housemaids

English · Hardback

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Summary

A common Sinhala proverb states, "A woman's understanding reaches only the length of the kitchen spoon's handle." In this beautifully written book on the effects of female migration from Sri Lanka, Michele Ruth Gamburd shows that the length of that...

Product details

Authors	Michele Ruth Gamburd
Publisher	Cornell University Press

Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	24.10.2000

EAN	9780801437380
ISBN	978-0-8014-3738-0
No. of pages	288
Dimensions	152 mm x 229 mm x 27 mm
Weight	907 g
Subjects	Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous Sri Lanka, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie

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