Gender, modernity and male migrant workers in China : becoming a 'modern' man / / Xiaodong Lin

• Autore: Lin Xiaodong
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (164 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.5/610951
• Soggetto topico: Rural-urban migration - China - History; Migration, Internal - China - History; Male employees - China - History; Masculinity - China; Men - China
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Glossary; 1 Introduction; 2 Representing 'peasant workers'; 3 Leaving home and being a 'filial son'; 4 'Father-son' relations and/or becoming urban working-class; 5 Conclusion: Becoming a 'modern' man; 6 Postscript: Youth, aspirations and masculinities; Appendix: Research participants; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Rural-urban migration within China has transformed and reshaped rural people's lives during the past few decades, and has been one of the most visible phenomena of the economic reforms enacted since the late 1970s. Whilst Feminist scholars have addressed rural women's experience of struggle and empowerment in urban China, in contrast, research on rural men's experience of migration is a neglected area of study. In response, this book seeks to address the absence of male migrant workers as a gendered category within the current literature on rural-urban migration.Examining Chin
• Titolo autorizzato: Gender, modernity and male migrant workers in China
• ISBN: 0-203-59090-2; 1-299-46964-7; 1-135-06974-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452704403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge contemporary China series.