Buch
Monografie
Juki girls, good girls : gender and cultural politics in Sri Lanka's global garment industry
Verfasst von:
Lynch, Caitrin
Ithaca, N.Y. [u. a.]:
ILR
,
2007
,
281 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Lynch, Caitrin |
| Jahr: | 2007 |
| Maße: | 23cm |
| ISBN: | 0801445566 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Caitrin Lynch analyses gender roles in the garment industries in Sri Lanka. Garment factories were brought to rural Sri Lanka by a government program. Women working in these factories got under the pressures of a globalizing economy and societal expectations that villages are sanctuaries of tradition. Female garment workers in the cities who are being called "Juki girls" have been characterised as vulgar and deracinated. In dissociation from this rural female factory workers have tried to emphasize that they are "good girls" who can embody the nation's highest ideals of femininity. The author shows how contemporary Sri Lankan women navigate a complex web of political, cultural, and socioeconomic forces. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research conducted inside export-oriented garment factories and a close examination of national policies intended to ease the way for globalization, Lynch details precisely how gender, nationalism, and globalization influence everyday life in Sri Lanka. The book includes autobiographical essays by garment workers about their efforts to attain the benefits of being seen as "good" while simultaneously expanding the definition of what sort of behavior constitutes appropriate conduct. Lynch provides the context needed to appreciate the paradoxes that globalization creates while painting a sympathetic portrait of the individuals whose life stories appear in this book. | |
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