Khmer Women on the Move: Exploring Work and Life in Urban Cambodia 9780824863234

"This is a fascinating ethnography about young Khmer women moving to the city to work in the garment factories, in

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Table of contents :
contents
acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Rice People in the City
3. Women, Ideals, and Migration
4. Factory Work
5. Sex Work
6. Street Trade
7. City Life and Modern Experience
8. Dutiful Daughters, Broken Women
9. Conclusion: Moving Women, Moving Selves
Appendix
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the author

Khmer Women on the Move: Exploring Work and Life in Urban Cambodia
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