Sri Lankan Housemaids in Lebanon A Case of 'Symbolic Violence' and 'Everyday Forms of Resistance'

• Автор: Moukarbel, Nayla (auth)
• Формат: Електронний ресурс Частина з книги
• Мова: Англійська
• Опубліковано: Amsterdam University Press 2009
• Серія: IMISCoe Dissertations
• Предмети: Sociology & anthropology; Politics & government; public administration; sociology; bestuurskunde; sociologie
• Онлайн доступ: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Unraveled in this book are the real dynamics at stake in the Madame/housemaid relationship. While cases of extreme physical abuse by the Lebanese women who hire housemaids - Madames - are an exception, what has become normalised are more insidious patterns of domination used to control each and ever...