Becoming Good Women

Download or read book Becoming Good Women written by Laura Batatota and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For female Sinhalese students attending a national school in the Central Province of Sri Lanka, the school serves as a significant base for cultural production, particularly in reproducing ethno-religious hegemony under the guise of ‘good’ Buddhist girls. It illustrates that tuition space acts as an important site for placemaking, where students play out their cosmopolitan aspirations whilst acquiring educational capital. Drawing on theories of social reproduction, the book examines young people’s aspirations of ‘figuring out’ their identity and visions of the future in the backdrop of nation-building processes within the school.