Ethnology, January 1st, 1997
Gender cannot rationally serve as a basis for solidarity among the female embroiderers in Lucknow's chikan garment industry. Though they are oppressed and devalued, many of the intermediary agents who profit from their work are also women, and unequal relations among embroiderers themselves rival the tensions between embroiderers and the men who staff other portions of the industry. Women have been able to some extent to work sewing chikan garments, and may ultimately be able to displace men there as they did in embroidery.
Female embroiderers in the chikan garment industry of Lucknow are hom...
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