Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone Gender and Politics in Sri Lanka

Informationen zum Autor Sandya Hewamanne teaches anthropology at Wake Forest University. Klappentext Sandya Hewamanne teaches anthropology at Wake Forest University. Zusammenfassung 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 bottom of the global economy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Nation, Modernity, and Female Morality Chapter 3. On the Shop Floor Chapter 4. Loving Daughters and Politically Active Workers Chapter 5. Politics of Everyday Life Chapter 6. Performing Disrespectability Chapter 7. FTZ Clothes and Home Clothes Chapter 8. Made in Sri Lanka: Globalization and the Politics of Location Epilogue: Cautious Voices Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Sandya Hewamanne
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 29.03.2010
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
• EAN: 9780812221121
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2112-1
• Pages: 277
• Series: Contemporary Ethnography; Contemporary Ethnography (Pape; Contemporary Ethnography; Contemporary Ethnography (Pape