House-Girls Remember: Domestic Workers in Vanuatu by Rodman Critchlow, Margaret

House-Girls Remember: Domestic Workers in Vanuatu (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780824830120)

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House-Girls Remember: Domestic Workers in Vanuatu by Rodman Critchlow, Margaret

House-Girls Remember: Domestic Workers in Vanuatu

$47.00
House-Girls Remember: Domestic Workers in Vanuatu by Rodman Critchlow, Margaret

House-Girls Remember: Domestic Workers in Vanuatu

$47.00
Format: Hardcover
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Giving voice to the women who worked as maids--known as "house-girls" in the Pacific islands of Vanuatu--is the goal of this innovative work. The stories the women tell resonate with the experiences of domestic workers around the world; their histories contribute to theorizing intimacy and traveling culture; and their struggles with adverse working conditions help find solutions, which are outlined at the end of the book. In addition to contributions by the editors, workshop reports by eleven ni-Vanuatu women fieldworkers and ten others who spoke about their lives as house-girls are included. These reports detail ni-Vanuatu women's experiences as domestic workers during the colonial period. One chapter presents an elderly French woman's recollections of the Vietnamese orphan who grew up in her home and worked as a house-girl. Material from contemporary house-girls appears in a final chapter based on research conducted in Port Vila.

Author: Margaret Rodman Critchlow
ISBN-10: 0824830121
ISBN-13: 9780824830120
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Language: English
Published: 06/30/2007
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.35w x 0.69d
By Margaret Rodman Critchlow
By Margaret Rodman Critchlow
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Margaret Rodman Critchlow (Editor)
Margaret Rodman Critchlow is professor of anthropology at York University, Toronto.

Daniela Kraemer (Editor)
Daniela Kraemer received her MA in anthropology from York University and has taught at Pearson College, Victoria, British Columbia; in 2007, she was studying at the London School of Economics.

Lissant Bolton (Editor)
Lissant Bolton is curator for Oceania at the British Museum.

Jean Tarisesei (Editor)
Jean Tarisesei is coordinator of the Women's Culture Project, which she established with Lissant Bolton at the Vanuatu Cultural Centre in the early 1990s.

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