Juki Girls, Good Girls
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Juki Girls, Good Girls

Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry

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Juki Girls, Good Girls

Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry

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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. Caitrin Lynch shows how contemporary Sri Lankan women navigate a complex web of political, cultural, and socioeconomic forces. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research conducted inside export-oriented garment factories and a close examination of national policies intended to ease the way for globalization, Lynch details precisely how gender, nationalism, and globalization influence everyday life in Sri Lanka. This book includes autobiographical essays by garment workers about their efforts to attain the benefits of being seen as "good" while simultaneously expanding the definition of what sort of behavior constitutes appropriate conduct. These village garment workers struggled to reconcile the role thrust upon them as symbols of national progress with the negative public perception of factory workers. Lynch provides the context needed to appreciate the paradoxes that globalization creates while painting a sympathetic portrait of the individuals whose life stories appear in this book.

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Publisher
ILR Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781501704994
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Cultural & Social Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Introduction
  3. Rohini: Young Women and Garment Life
  4. 1. Globalization, Gender, and Labor
  5. Chinta
  6. 2. Localizing Production
  7. Mala: The Truth about Women Workers at Garment Factories
  8. 3. The Politics of White Women’s Underwear
  9. Geeta
  10. 4. Juki Girls, Good Girls, and the Village Context
  11. Sita
  12. 5. The Good Girls of Sri Lankan Modernity
  13. Geeta: Untitled
  14. 6. Paternalism and Factory Conflicts
  15. Conclusion
  16. Glossary and Abbreviations
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography