FAMILIAL ADAPTATIONS TO THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF ...

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8 An extreme example is the identification of prostitution as a form of
female power.
91 originally became acquainted with the village of Suad in 1974 when I knew
it to be a center for the cultivation of jasmine where women and children are
employed as wage labourers to harvest flowers. I visited the village upon my
return to the area in 1979. When i went out to the fields in the early
mornings, I found very few people gathering jasmine. When I asked about the
many women who used to harvest the flowers only a few years earlier, villagers
simply remarked that they had become "ladies." Some of the women who had once
worked as wage labourers now confine their work to the household as a result
of accumulated wealth through migrants' remittances.