Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Chapter 1. Global in the Villages: Politics of Contentment -- Chapter 2. Pure Girls! Don't Open the Door -- Chapter 3. Industrious and Obedient Daughters- in- Law -- Chapter 4. Superwomen and Lazy Lalies: Villages Adjusting to Successful Former Workers -- Chapter 5. Sex in the Village: Subversive Sexualities Abandoned? -- Chapter 6. The Strange, the Crazy, and the Stubborn -- Chapter 7. I Do Not Want to Be Rich and Lonely: Politics of Contentment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
Continuing her earlier work on women free-trade-zone factory workers in Sri Lanka, Sandya Hewamanne here explores the ways in which these women negotiate their social and economic lives once back in their villages and highlights the complex effects of globalization and transnational production on communities in the Global South
Analysis
Anthropology
Folklore
Linguistics
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 24, 2020)
