Producing Factory Femininity

Claire Oueslati-Porter

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-24104-9_3

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Producing Factory Femininity

Claire Oueslati-Porter

Gender, Textile Work, and Tunisian Women’s Liberation, pp.41-62

Springer International Publishing

2019-09-15

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24104-9_3

Abstract

Exploitation

Hegemonic masculinity

Homosocial

Management

Sexual harassment

Surveillance

This chapter is the first of three parts of the ethnography of the textile factory and the focus is on factory girls (and a few married factory women) and normative femininity in the labor process. Girls’ and women’s methods of navigating the sexist structure of labor (including sexual harassment) are central in this chapter. Girls and women workers enact several ways of being feminine, and these enactments inform their negotiations with managers and men workers. The dynamics of surveillance by the managers, and between workers is also explicated.

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Title: Producing Factory Femininity
Creators: Claire Oueslati-Porter - Department of Anthropology, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA
Publication Details: Gender, Textile Work, and Tunisian Women’s Liberation, pp.41-62
Publisher: Springer International Publishing; Cham
Academic Unit: College of A&S; A&S - Anthropology
Language: English
Resource Type: Book chapter
Record Identifier: 991031624153602976