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Juki Girls, Good Girls - 9780801445569

Un libro in lingua di Caitrin Lynch edito da Cornell Univ Pr, 2007

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In Sri Lanka, as in many other regions, traditional women are good women. Women who are established as workers in the urban sectors are not good women but "Juki girls," vulgar and alien. However, the lines between these two groups of women are blurring as more traditional, rural women are recruited for work in the rural garment factories under globalization. To meet the standards for traditional behavior and yet support national efforts for development rural women must carefully negotiate a complex maze of national policies, traditional expectations and their own changing views of themselves and their place in Sri Lankan society. Lynch (humanities and social sciences, Olin College of Engineering) uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to examine the lives of rural women thrust into a national cause over which they have virtually no control, and the ways with which they fight to maintain their primary identity and dignity. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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