Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone–Now Available

Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone: Gender and Politics in Sri Lanka

Sandya Hewamanne

296 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus.

Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4045-0 | $59.95 | £39.00

A volume in the Contemporary Ethnography series

Stitching Identities in a Free Trade ZoneBy analyzing how Sri Lankan free trade zone factory workers claim political subjectivity and revealing a vibrant subaltern political universe where they can express alternative perspectives, Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone challenges conventional notions about marginalized women at the bottom of the global economy.

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