Galam, Roderick G.

Woman who stay : seafaring and subjectification in an Ilocos town / Roderick G. Galam. - Quezon City : Ateneo De Manila University Press, c2018. - xi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Chapter 1. Introduction: durable and enduring selves.--Chapter 2. Seafaring labor and seafarers wives.--Chapter 3. Lung-aw and migration subjectivity.--Chapter 4. Bukodmo amin: routine, responsibility, and subjectification.--Chapter 5. Communication and imagined communion.--Chapter 6. dibersyon and isu pay: gossip and the morality of mobility.--Chapter 7 . Women working: isu pay and moral rationality.--Chapter 8 Panagbukbukod and relational autonomy.--Chapter 9. Conclusion: hopeful and strategic subjectivity.

This book sheds light on an understudied aspect of gender and migration studies: subject formation of the wives of seafarers working in the global maritime industry.

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WIVES --EFFECT OF HUSBAND'S EMPLOYMENT ON --PHILIPPINES --ILOCOS
MERCHANT MARINERS' SPOUSES --PHILIPPINES --ILOCOS
HOUSEWIVES --SOCIAL CONDITIONS --PHILIPPINES --ILOCOS
EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION --PHILIPPINES --ILOCOS

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