Juki Girls, Good Girls: Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry These women learned quickly to resist the characterization of "Juki girls"female garment workers already established in the urban sectoras vulgar and deracinated, instead asserting that they were "good girls" who could embody the nation's
| TITLE | : | Juki Girls, Good Girls: Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.81 (735 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 0801473624 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 296 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2007-03-29 |
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When a government program brought garment factories to rural Sri Lanka, women workers found themselves caught between the pressures of a globalizing economy and societal expectations that villages are sanctuaries of tradition. These women learned quickly to resist the characterization of "Juki girls"female garment workers already established in the urban sectoras vulgar and deracinated, instead asserting that they were "good girls" who could embody the nation's highest ideals of femininity. Caitrin Lynch 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
EDITORIAL :
"In keeping with the best traditions of anthropology, Lynch connects individual experience to the politico-economic structures within which women act on and understand their worlds. Juki Girls, Good Girls is an empirically rich and theoretically informed account of gender as a site of struggle and change; few readers will be disappointed. It reminds us that women's empowerment, while a laudable development goal, is far more complicated than many of us suspect. There is much in this book that will interest development scholars as well as those in gender and feminist studies, and both seasoned and novice researchers."Dawn H. Currie, Pacific Affairs
"Anthropologist Caitrin Lynch writes a provocative ethnography about women workers in Sri Lanka's 200 Garment Factories Program, a state initiative that brought international industry to rural villages. Wor
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