Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Focusing on Migrant Women / Jacka, Tamara / Gaetano, Arianne M. -- Part 1. Negotiating Identities -- 1. Filial Daughters, Modern Women: Migrant Domestic Workers in Post-Mao Beijing / Gaetano, Arianne M. -- 2. From Peasant Women to Bar Hostesses: Gender and Modernity in Post-Mao Dalian / Zheng, Tiantian -- 3. Indoctrination, Fetishization, and Compassion: Media Constructions of the Migrant Woman / Sun, Wanning -- Part 2. Seeking a Future -- 4. Dilemmas of the Heart: Rural Working Women and Their Hopes for the Future / Beynon, Louise -- 5. Living as Double Outsiders: Migrant Women's Experiences of Marriage in a County-Level City / Tan, Lin / Short, Susan E. -- Part 3. Changing Village Life -- 6. Out to the City and Back to the Village: The Experiences and Contributions of Rural Women Migrating from Sichuan and Anhui / Fan, C. Cindy -- 7. The Migration Experiences of Young Women from Four Counties in Sichuan and Anhui / Lou, Binbin / Zheng, Zhenzhen / Connelly, Rachel / Roberts, Kenneth D. -- 8. The Impact of Labor Migration on the Well-Being and Agency of Rural Chinese Women: Cultural and Economic Contexts and the Life Course / Murphy, Rachel -- Part 4. Writing Lives -- 9. Migrant Women's Stories / Jacka, Tamara -- 10. My Life as a Migrant Worker / Jacka, Tamara / Xianlin, Song -- Glossary of Chinese Terms -- References -- Contributors -- |