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Juki Girls, Good Girls Caitrin Lynch

Juki Girls, Good Girls By Caitrin Lynch

Juki Girls, Good Girls by Caitrin Lynch


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Caitrin Lynch shows how contemporary Sri Lankan women navigate a complex web of political, cultural, and socioeconomic forces. Lynch details precisely how gender, nationalism, and globalization influence everyday life in Sri Lanka.

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Juki Girls, Good Girls: Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry by 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. 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.

Juki Girls, Good Girls Reviews

Anthropologist Caitrin Lynch writes a provocative ethnography about women workers in Sri Lanka's 200 Garment Factories Program, a state initiative that brought international industry to rural villages. Working at the intersection of globalization, gender studies, and labor relations, Lynch discusses the localization of production, examining how transnational capitalist dynamics settle into local contexts. This engaging book is based on eighteen months of qualitative research performed in two garment factories. The pages brim with lively characters and trenchant analysis.

* Journal of Asian Studies *

In Juki Girls, Good Girls, anthropologist Caitrin Lynch powerfully displays women's ability to contest and adapt to larger social, political, and economic structures as they fashion identities that are both modern and traditional. Above all, it is about women's agency and thus challenges the victim-oriented globalization literature. Lynch illustrates how even when women enact subordinating practices, they do so on their own terms in an ongoing process of subject formation. Juki Girls is an instant classic, highly recommended to generalists, undergraduates, and graduate students for his accessibility, clarity, and significance.

* Feminist Studies *

In keeping with the best traditions of anthropology, Lynch connects individual experience to the politico-economic structures within which women act on and understand their worlds. Juki Girls, Good Girls is an empirically rich and theoretically informed account of gender as a site of struggle and change; few readers will be disappointed. It reminds us that women's empowerment, while a laudable development goal, is far more complicated than many of us suspect. There is much in this book that will interest development scholars as well as those in gender and feminist studies, and both seasoned and novice researchers.

* Pacific Affairs *

About Caitrin Lynch

Caitrin Lynch is Assistant Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Olin College of Engineering and Visiting Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at Brandeis University.

Table of Contents

Introduction Rohini: Young Women and Garment Life 1. Globalization, Gender, and Labor Chinta 2. Localizing Production Mala: The Truth about Women Workers at Garment Factories 3. The Politics of White Women's Underwear Geeta 4. Juki Girls, Good Girls, and the Village Context Sita 5. The Good Girls of Sri Lankan Modernity Geeta: Untitled 6. Paternalism and Factory Conflicts Conclusion

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CIN0801473624VG
9780801473623
0801473624
Juki Girls, Good Girls: Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry by Caitrin Lynch
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Cornell University Press
20070329
296
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