Introduction: a new beginning -- Rural women and migration under market-socialism -- Dutiful daughters and migration desires -- Gendered social networks and migration pathways -- Menial women and model workers -- From country bumpkins to urban sophisticates -- Migrant working wives and mothers -- Conclusion: the changing lives of rural women
Summary
A fresh, engaging account of the lives of a group of migrant women who moved from rural towns to Beijing to take up work as maids, office cleaners, hotel chambermaids, and migrant schoolteachers. This exploration of migrant women's lives demonstrates how the intersection of gendered norms and rural-urban inequalities shaped the women's identities and desires and makes clear the material consequences migration made in their lives
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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