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2007

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Juki Girls, Good Girls: Gender And Cultural Politics In Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry, Caitrin Lynch Dec 2006

Juki Girls, Good Girls: Gender And Cultural Politics In Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry, Caitrin Lynch

Caitrin Lynch

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 sector—as vulgar and deracinated, instead asserting that they were "good girls" who could embody the nation's highest ideals of femininity.

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Politics, Society And The Media, Paul Nesbitt-Larking Dec 2006

Politics, Society And The Media, Paul Nesbitt-Larking

Paul W Nesbitt-Larking

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Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, A Haitian Anthropologist And Self-Making In Jamaica, Gina Ulysse Dec 2006

Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, A Haitian Anthropologist And Self-Making In Jamaica, Gina Ulysse

Gina Athena Ulysse

The Caribbean “market woman” is ingrained in the popular imagination as the archetype of black womanhood in countries throughout the region. Challenging this stereotype and other outdated images of black women, Downtown Ladies offers a more complex picture by documenting the history of independent international traders—known as informal commercial importers, or ICIs—who travel abroad to import and export a vast array of consumer goods sold in the public markets of Kingston, Jamaica. Both by-products of and participants in globalization, ICIs operate on multiple levels and, since their emergence in the 1970s, have made significant contributions to the regional, national, and …

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