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Author Choi, Susanne Y. P., author.

Title Masculine compromise : migration, family, and gender in China / Susanne Y.P. Choi and Yinni Peng
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (x, 179 pages) : maps
Contents Introduction: Migration, family, and masculinity in post-socialist China -- Marginal men and China's grand narratives -- Striking a balance: courtship, sexuality, and marriage -- Conjugal power and diverse strategies -- Housework and respectability -- Migration, fatherhood, and emotionality -- Filial piety from afar: migrant sons renegotiating elderly care -- Masculine compromise: a feminist framework of changing masculinity
Summary "Drawing on the life stories of 266 migrants in South China, Choi and Peng examine the effect of mass rural-to-urban migration on family and gender relationships with a specific focus on changes in men and masculinities. They show how migration has forced migrant men to renegotiate their roles as lovers, husbands, fathers and sons. They also reveal how migrant men make masculine compromises: they strive to preserve the gender boundary and their symbolic dominance within the family by making concessions on marital power and domestic division of labor, and by redefining filial piety and fatherhood. The stories of these migrant men and their families reveal another side to China's sweeping economic reform, modernization and grand social transformations."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Rural-urban migration -- China, Southeast
Urban-rural migration -- China, Southeast
Men -- Family relationships -- China, Southeast
Sex role -- China
Migration, Internal -- China, Southeast
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Men -- Family relationships
Migration, Internal
Rural-urban migration
Sex role
Social conditions
Urban-rural migration
Landflucht
Binnenwanderung
Familienbeziehung
Soziale Situation
Geschlechterrolle
Gender roles
SUBJECT China -- Social conditions -- 1949- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87000602
Subject China
Southeast China
Guangdong
China
Form Electronic book
Author Peng, Yinni, 1979- author.
ISBN 9780520963252
0520963253