Galam, Roderick G.

Women who stay : seafaring and subjectification in an Ilocos town / Roderick G. Galam - xi, 238 pages : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-232) and index.

Introduction : durable and enduring selves Seafaring labor and seafarers wives Lung-aw and migration subjectivity Bukodmo amin : routine, responsibility, and subjectification Communication and imagined communion Dibersyon and isu pay : gossip and the morality of mobility Women working : isu pay and moral rationality Panagbukbukod and relational autonomy Conclusion : hopeful and strategic subjectivity

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Housewives--Social conditions--Ilocos (Philippines)
Migrant laborers' spouses--Economic conditions--Ilocos (Philippines)

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