On the move [[electronic resource] ] : 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II