Sandya Hewamanne

Sri Lanka's Global Factory Workers

(Un) Disciplined Desires and Sexual Struggles in a Post-Colonial Society

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is concerned with Sri Lanka's global factory workers based in the Free Trade Zone (FTZ). These FTZs employ thousands of unmarried rural women, and their migration has aroused deep anxieties over female morality and ideal conduct.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780415819862
• ISBN-10: 0415819865
• Artikelnr.: 38029461

Autorenporträt

Sandya Hewamanne teaches Anthropology at the Department of Sociology, University of Essex, UK. Her research interests include globalization, identity, cultural politics and feminist and post-colonial theory.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Global Factory Workers and Forbidden Zones
2. "Secret" Lives of Good Girls: On Romances, Sexualities and Unuttered
Desires
3. Romance on the Street: Sexual Banter and Sexual Harassment
4. "Would Good Girls Read Such Filth?" Reading and Writing Sex among Global
Factory Workers
5. In the Service of the Nation: Sex, Marriage and Social Mobility in Times
of War
6. Guardians of Girls: Policing and Saving Workers in Crises of Love and
Sex
7. Man-power Workers, Contract Workers, and Tamil Workers: Sexual
Empowerment, from Here to Where?