| Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline, Second Edition: Factory Women in Malaysia Revised Edition Contributor(s): Ong, Aihwa (Author), Freeman, Carla (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1438433549 ISBN-13: 9781438433547 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries |
| Dewey: 306.360 |
| LCCN: 2010004832 |
| Lexile Measure: 1450 |
| Series: Suny the Anthropology of Work |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.92 lbs) 294 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the two decades since its original publication, Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline has become an ethnographic classic in the fields of anthropology, labor studies, and gender and globalization studies. Based on anthropological field work in an agricultural district in Selangor, Peninsular Malaysia, Spirits of Resistance captures a moment of profound transformation, illustrated by the disruptions, conflicts, and ambivalences in the lives of Malay women during the rapid industrialization associated with Malaysia's rise as a tiger economy. Aihwa Ong's nuanced approach to the Malay women factory workers' experiences of the contradictions of modern globalized capitalism has inspired subsequent generations of feminist ethnographers in their explorations of key questions of power, resistance, femininities, religious community, and social change. With a new critical introduction by anthropologist Carla Freeman, this new edition of Spirits of Resistance continues to offer an exemplary model of sophisticated analysis of culturally based resistance to the ideology, surveillance, and institutional authority of globalized corporate capitalism. |