WHERE ARE THE WOMEN? GENDER, LABOR, AND DISCOURSE IN THE NOIDA EXPORT PROCESSING ZONE AND DELHI
研究了印度诺伊达出口加工区和德里地区手工珠宝生产中，语言、话语和主体性如何影响性别分工，并揭示了工人（尤其是女性）在劳动力市场结构中的能动性。
Abstract Export processing zones (EPZs) are like islands of globalization. Much of the literature on EPZs and export-oriented industries (EOIs) notes a preponderance of women who are constructed as “cheap,” “nimble fingered,” and “docile” labor. This literature is dominated by socialist feminist thinkers, and this paper argues that there is a need to incorporate the insights of postmodern feminist thinkers. The article focuses on the role that language, discourse, and subjectivity play in the gendering process in handmade jewelry production in the Noida Export Processing Zone (NEPZ) and in the ranch production units related by common ownership in Delhi, India. It thus gives “voices” to women and men, and brings out their agency in structuring the labor market. The study confirms that gender division of labor is a product of discursive and material practices that are reproduced through discourses into which different actors invest, and that feed into the gendered subjective identities of these actors.