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 bottom of the global economy.

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Hewamanne, Sandya
Publisher:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc
Subject:	Sri Lanka \| Sonderwirtschaftszone \| Special economic zone \| Weibliche Arbeitskräfte \| Women workers \| Geschlecht \| Gender
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [gbv.de]

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Extent:	Online-Ressource (296 p)
Series:	Contemporary Ethnography Contemporary Ethnography Ser
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based upon print version of record ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""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""
ISBN:	978-0-8122-2112-1 ; 978-0-8122-0225-0 ; 978-0-8122-2112-1
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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