Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka: Gender, Neoliberalism, and the Politics of Contentment

by Sandya Hewamanne

Sandya Hewamanne's Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone analyzed how female factory workers in Sri Lanka's free trade zones challenged conventional notions about marginalized women at the bottom of the global economy. In Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka Hewamanne now follows many of these same women to explore the ways in which they negotiate their social and economic lives once back in their home villages. Drawing on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812252403
• ISBN13: 9780812252408
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"