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Sri Lanka's Global Factory Workers - (Un) Disciplined Desires and Sexual Struggles in a Post-Colonial Society (Paperback)
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Sri Lanka's Global Factory Workers - (Un) Disciplined Desires and Sexual Struggles in a Post-Colonial Society (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
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In Sri Lanka, the Free Trade Zone (FTZ) employs thousands of
unmarried rural women, and their migration has aroused deep
anxieties over female morality and ideal conduct. This book focuses
on the global factory workers based in the FTZ, and analyzes
intersections of gender, class and sexuality by looking at the
sexual lives and struggles of the female workers. Exploring the
alternative sexual world created by Sri Lanka's female global
factory workers who engage in practices-such as premarital sex,
unmarried cohabitation, and, to a lesser extent, lesbianism-that
mainstream Sinhalese Buddhist culture considers taboo, the author
demonstrates that the articulations of good and bad women in
relation to sexual behavior has rendered global workers' sexual
lives "unutterable," leading to zones of silence, contradictory
articulations and performances. Taking the reader into the
forbidden zones of sexual discourses, choices, acts, and texts
enacted and expressed in visible arenas yet remain unseen, unread
or misread by onlookers, the book critically investigate how
cultural, economic and political processes are implicated in the
construction and expression of working class female sexualities. An
important contribution to the field of gender studies, the book
addresses issues surrounding sexuality, particularly how it is
shaped by global production networks as well as patriarchal
nationalist projects. It is of interest to students and scholars of
South Asian Studies and Gender Studies.
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