03083nam 2200649 a 450 991043833160332120200520144314.01-283-91016-094-007-5524-410.1007/978-94-007-5524-6(CKB)2670000000280534(EBL)1083581(OCoLC)820362348(SSID)ssj0000798672(PQKBManifestationID)11441369(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000798672(PQKBWorkID)10744057(PQKB)10426739(DE-He213)978-94-007-5524-6(MiAaPQ)EBC1083581(PPN)168341158(EXLCZ)99267000000028053420121101d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGender, work, and family in a Chinese economic zone laboring in paradise /Nancy E. Riley1st ed. 2013.New York Springer20131 online resource (168 p.)Description based upon print version of record.94-007-9874-1 94-007-5523-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Acknowledgement -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Doing Research in the Dalian Economic Zone -- Chapter 3: Urban as Paradise: Understanding the Urban/Rural Divide -- Chapter 4: "It 's just Women's Lot": The Roler of Gender -- Chapter 5: "A Women has to struggle to get what she wants": Gender and Power -- Chapter 6: Performing Gender in a Modern Economic Zone -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- Bibliography.This book examines the dynamics of power within the families of married women who have migrated from rural areas to China's Dalian Economic Zone.  Engaging the question of whether waged work gives women power in their families, this ethnographic study finds that women do indeed use their new positions and urban status to negotiate their family status.  However, women use these new resources not necessarily to promote their own individual liberation, but rather to strengthen their contribution as wives and, especially, as mothers.  Thus, this new modernity provides a space for the re-inscribing of traditional roles, even as it may work to give women new-found power within their families.  How and why this process occurs is related to the dual inequalities these women face as rural migrants and as women.Sex roleChinaFamiliesChinaWomenChinaSexual division of laborChinaChinaEconomic conditionsChinaSocial conditionsSex roleFamiliesWomenSexual division of labor155.3Riley Nancy E1064448MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910438331603321Gender, Work, and Family in a Chinese Economic Zone2538335UNINA