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Sri Lanka's Global Factory Workers

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Sri Lanka's Global Factory Workers

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(Un) Disciplined Desires and Sexual Struggles in a Post-Colonial Society

Sri Lanka's Global Factory Workers

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Sri Lanka's Global Factory Workers book

(Un) Disciplined Desires and Sexual Struggles in a Post-Colonial Society
BySandya Hewamanne
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 6 July 2016
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315543741
Pages 144
eBook ISBN 9781315543741
Subjects Area Studies, Development Studies, Development Studies, Environment, Social Work, Urban Studies, Humanities, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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Hewamanne, S. (2016). Sri Lanka's Global Factory Workers: (Un) Disciplined Desires and Sexual Struggles in a Post-Colonial Society (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315543741

ABSTRACT

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|22 pages

Global factory workers and forbidden zones

chapter 2|19 pages

“Secret” lives of good girls: on romances, sexualities, and unuttered desires

chapter 3|20 pages

Romance on the street: sexual banter and sexual harassment

chapter 4|18 pages

“Would good girls read such filth?”: reading and writing sex among global factory workers

chapter 5|21 pages

In the service of the nation: sex, marriage, and social mobility in times of war

chapter 6|20 pages

Guardians of girls: policing and saving global workers in crises of love and sex

chapter 7|8 pages

Man-power workers, contract workers, and Tamil workers: sexual empowerment, from here to where?

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