Ong, Spirits of Resistance

1. What is the relationship between work discipline, gender identity, and sexuality? What role do development, agency, and cultural change play in this?

2. How does Ong use Foucault? Is her usage convincing?

3. Ong claims that the factory women she studied "articulate an intersubjective mode of apprehending the world." What does she mean? How is her notion of subjectivity different from Kondo's?

4. According to Ong, how does wage labor affect women's status? How does her account compare to Salaff's?

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