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Glaring invisibility: dressing the body of the female cleaner
2009
Anthropology Southern Africa
The paper explores how the uniform of a group of female cleaners appears to be more than an abstract object framed by the practical exegetics of work. The uniform is seen as acting as a material exercise of discretionary and disciplinary power of inscription, and as the paper shows, emerges as a mode by which the cleaners are homogenously objectified and plastically turned into 'subjects' (Foucault 1982) . The paper shows too that while the single layered cleaners' uniform can be seen as
doi:10.1080/23323256.2009.11499987
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