Sri Lanka's Global Factory Workers: (Un) Disciplined Desires and Sexual Struggles in a Post-Colonial Society

ISBN-13: 9780367867683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 136 str.

Sandya Hewamanne

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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?

O autorze

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.