Re-drawing boundaries : work, households, and gender in China / / edited by Barbara Entwisle and Gail E. Henderson

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (360 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.4/133/0951
• Soggetto topico: Labor - China; Sex discrimination in employment - China
• Altri autori: EntwisleBarbara HendersonGail <1949->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-331) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Work and Household in Chinese Culture: Historical Perspectives; 2. Re-Drawing the Boundaries of Work; 3. What Is Work? Comparative Perspectives from the Social Sciences; 4. The Changing Meanings of Work in China; 5. Local Meanings of Gender and Work in Rural Shaanxi in the 1950's; 6. Iron Girls Revisited: Gender and the Politics of Work in the Cultural Revolution, 1966 -76; 7. Wage and Job Inequalities in the Working Lives of Men and Women in Tianjin; 8. Gender Differentials in Economic Success: Rural China in 1991 ; 9. The Perils of Assessing Trends in Gender Inequality in China 10. The Interplay of Gender, Space, and Work in China's Floating Population; 11. Interconnections among Gender, Work, and Migration; 12. Migration, Gender, and Labor Force in Hubei Province, 1985-1990; 13. Gendered Migration and the Migration of Genders in Contemporary China; 14. Reconfiguring Shanghai Households; 15. Household Economies in Transitional Times; 16. Understanding the Social Inequality System and Family and Household Dynamics in China; Conclusion: Re-Drawing Boundaries; Glossary of Chinese Terms; References ; ContributorsIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: Representing the culmination of more than a decade of empirical research in post-Mao China, this collection of essays explores changes in the nature of work in relation to changes in households, migration patterns, and gender roles during an era of economic reform.
• Altri titoli varianti: Redrawing boundaries
• Titolo autorizzato: Re-drawing boundaries
• ISBN: 0-520-92382-0; 1-59734-856-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454567803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II