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Titolo: | On the move : women and rural-to-urban migration in contemporary China / / edited by Arianne M. Gaetano and Tamara Jacka |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Columbia University Press, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (367 p.) |
Disciplina: | 307.2/4/0820951 |
Soggetto topico: | Rural women - China - Social conditions |
Migration, Internal - China | |
Soggetto geografico: | China Social conditions 1976-2000 |
Altri autori: | GaetanoArianne M JackaTamara <1965-> |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 -- Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | This book explores the impact of migration on the identities, values, worldviews, and social positions of migrant women in contemporary China based on original fieldwork as well as in-depth research in multiple regions of China. |
Altri titoli varianti: | Women and rural-to-urban migration in contemporary China |
Titolo autorizzato: | On the move |
ISBN: | 0-231-50173-0 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910824058303321 |
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