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On the move : women and rural-to-urban migration in contemporary China /
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. Contributor:Arianne M. Gaetano; Binbin Lou, Zhenzhen Zheng, Rachel Conn...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Focusing on migrant women / Tamara Jacka and Arianne M. Gaetano
- Filial daughters, modern women : migrant domestic workers in post-Mao Beijing / Arianne M. Gaetano
- From peasant women to bar hostesses : gender and modernity in post-Mao Dalian / Tiantian Zheng
- Indoctrination, fetishization, and compassion : media constructions of the migrant woman / Wanning Sun
- Dilemmas of the heart : rural working women and their hopes for the future / Louise Beynon
- Living as double outsiders : migrant women's experiences of marriage in a county-level city / Lin Tan and Susan E. Short
- Out to the city and back to the village : the experiences and contributions of rural women migrating from Sichuan and Anhui / C. Cindy Fan
- The migration experiences of young women from four counties in Sichuan and Anhui / Binbin Lou [and others]
- The impact of labor migration on the well-being and agency of rural Chinese women : cultural and economic contexts and the life course / Rachel Murphy
- Migrant women's stories / Tamara Jacka
- My life as a migrant worker / translations by Tamara Jacka and Song Xianlin. Let bygones be bygones / Cui Jingyu ; The law is by my side / Huang Zhihua ; Burdened youth / Mian Xiaohong ; I am a cloud / Pang Hui ; Looking back, I am proud / Wang Xiangfen ; Leaving Huaihua Valley : a Sichuan girl's own account of being a migrant worker / Zhou Rencong ; Working for myself / Li Jianying.