| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 355 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : Focusing on migrant women / Tamara Jacka and Arianne M. Gaetano -- Filial daughters, modern women : migrant domestic workers in post-Mao Beijing / Arianne M. Gaetano -- From peasant women to bar hostesses : gender and modernity in post-Mao Dalian / Tiantian Zheng -- Indoctrination, fetishization, and compassion : media constructions of the migrant woman / Wanning Sun -- Dilemmas of the heart : rural working women and their hopes for the future / Louise Beynon -- Living as double outsiders : migrant women's experiences of marriage in a county-level city / Lin Tan and Susan E. Short -- Out to the city and back to the village : the experiences and contributions of rural women migrating from Sichuan and Anhui / C. Cindy Fan -- The migration experiences of young women from four counties in Sichuan and Anhui / Binbin Lou [and others] -- The impact of labor migration on the well-being and agency of rural Chinese women : cultural and economic contexts and the life course / Rachel Murphy -- Migrant women's stories / Tamara Jacka -- My life as a migrant worker / translations by Tamara Jacka and Song Xianlin. Let bygones be bygones / Cui Jingyu ; The law is by my side / Huang Zhihua ; Burdened youth / Mian Xiaohong ; I am a cloud / Pang Hui ; Looking back, I am proud / Wang Xiangfen ; Leaving Huaihua Valley : a Sichuan girl's own account of being a migrant worker / Zhou Rencong ; Working for myself / Li Jianying |
| Summary |
This book explores the impact of migration on the identities, values, worldviews, and social positions of migrant women in contemporary China based on original fieldwork as well as in-depth research in multiple regions of China. Contributor:Arianne M. Gaetano; Binbin Lou, Zhenzhen Zheng, Rachel Connelly, Kenneth D. Roberts; C. Cindy Fan; Lin Tan and Susan E. Short; Louise Beynon; Rachel Murphy; Tamara Jacka; Tamara Jacka and Arianne M. Gaetano; Tiantian Zheng; Translations Tamara Jacka and Song Xianlin; Wanning Sun |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Rural women -- China -- Social conditions
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Migration, Internal -- China
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Migration, Internal
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Rural women -- Social conditions
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Social conditions
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Social conditions -- 1976-2000. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024185
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| Subject |
China
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| Genre/Form |
Essays
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gaetano, Arianne M
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Jacka, Tamara, 1965-
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| LC no. |
2003048900 |
| ISBN |
0231501730 |
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9780231501736 |
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