LEADER 03083nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910438331603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-91016-0 010 $a94-007-5524-4 024 7 $a10.1007/978-94-007-5524-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000280534 035 $a(EBL)1083581 035 $a(OCoLC)820362348 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000798672 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11441369 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000798672 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10744057 035 $a(PQKB)10426739 035 $a(DE-He213)978-94-007-5524-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1083581 035 $a(PPN)168341158 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000280534 100 $a20121101d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGender, work, and family in a Chinese economic zone $elaboring in paradise /$fNancy E. Riley 205 $a1st ed. 2013. 210 $aNew York $cSpringer$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (168 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a94-007-9874-1 311 $a94-007-5523-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgement -- 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aSex role$zChina 606 $aFamilies$zChina 606 $aWomen$zChina 606 $aSexual division of labor$zChina 607 $aChina$xEconomic conditions 607 $aChina$xSocial conditions 615 0$aSex role 615 0$aFamilies 615 0$aWomen 615 0$aSexual division of labor 676 $a155.3 700 $aRiley$b Nancy E$01064448 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910438331603321 996 $aGender, Work, and Family in a Chinese Economic Zone$92538335 997 $aUNINA