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Author Hewamanne, Sandya

Title Stitching identities in a free trade zone : gender and politics in Sri Lanka / Sandya Hewamanne
Published Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations
Series Contemporary Ethnography
Contemporary ethnography.
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
Summary 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
Analysis "Multi-User"
Notes OldControl:muse9780812202250
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-274) and index
Notes This edition in English
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Subject Free trade -- Sri Lanka
Sex role -- Sri Lanka
Women -- Sri Lanka -- Economic conditions
Women -- Sri Lanka -- Social conditions
Women migrant labor -- Sri Lanka
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Free trade
Sex role
Women -- Economic conditions
Women migrant labor
Women -- Social conditions
Sri Lanka
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780812202250
0812202252
1283890763
9781283890762