كتاب
Khmer women on the move: exploring work and life in urban Cambodia
| العنوان: | Khmer women on the move: exploring work and life in urban Cambodia |
|---|---|
| المؤلفون: | Derks, Annuska. |
| بيانات النشر: | Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2008. |
| سنة النشر: | 2008 |
| وصف مادي: | ix, 258 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| سلاسل: | Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, and memory Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Young women -- Cambodia -- Social conditions., Urban women -- Cambodia -- Social conditions., Urban women -- Employment -- Cambodia. |
| الوصف: | Khmer Women on the Move offers a fascinating ethnography of young Cambodian women who move from the countryside to work in Cambodia's capital city, Phnom Penh. Female migration and urban employment are rising, triggered by Cambodia's transition from a closed socialist system to an open market economy. This book challenges the dominant views of these young rural women--that they are controlled by global economic forces and national development policies or trapped by restrictive customs and Cambodia's tragic history. The author shows instead how these women shape and influence the processes of change taking place in present-day Cambodia. Based on field research among women working in the garment industry, prostitution, and street trading, the book explores the complex interplay between their experiences and actions, gender roles, and the broader historical context. The focus on women involved in different kinds of work allows new insight into women's mobility, highlighting similarities and differences in working conditions and experiences. Young women's ability to utilize networks of increasing size and complexity allows them to move into and between geographic and social spaces that extend far beyond the village context. Women's mobility is further expressed in the flexible patterns of behavior that young rural women display when trying to fulfill their own "modern" aspirations along with their family obligations and cultural ideals. |
| Original Identifier: | ocn182662700 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-8248-3128-8 978-0-8248-3270-4 0-8248-3128-4 0-8248-3270-1 |
| حقوق: | This record is part of the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-250) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.011476408.5 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
| ردمك: | 9780824831288 9780824832704 0824831284 0824832701 |
|---|