Khmer Women on the Move
This work offers an ethnology of young Cambodian women who move from the countryside to work in Cambodia's capital city, Phnom Penh. The book challenges the dominant image of these young rural women - that they are controlled by global economic forces and national development policies or trapped by history and restrictive customs.
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- Full title :Khmer Women on the Move / Annuska Derks.
Summary
This work offers an ethnology of young Cambodian women who move from the countryside to work in Cambodia's capital city, Phnom Penh. The book challenges the dominant image of these young rural women - that they are controlled by global economic forces and national development policies or trapped by history and restrictive customs.
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- Publication Date:©2008.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Hawaiʻi Press
- Place of Publication:Honolulu
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2008.
Notes
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (ix, 258 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0824869184, 9780824869182, 0824863232, 9780824863234, 1435666577, 9781435666573
- oclc:on1154965456
- LC Classification:HQ1750.3
- Dewey Decimal:305.242/209173209596
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Rice people in the city -- Women, ideals and migration -- Factory work -- Sex work -- Street trade -- City life and modern experience -- Dutiful daughters, broken women -- Conclusion: Moving women, moving selves.
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