Becoming good women: schooling, aspirations and imagining the future among female students in Sri Lanka

2025/07/22 by Shankar Gugoloth · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare

paper · doi:10.1080/00131911.2025.2533066

openalex publication_date 2025/07/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/15

Abstract

Becoming good women: schooling, aspirations and imagining the future among female students in Sri Lanka is an ethnographic account of female youth aspirations, national identity, and the politics o...

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