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On the Move : Women and Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China / ed. by Tamara Jacka, Arianne Gaetano.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231127066
  • 9780231501736
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.240820951
LOC classification:
  • HQ1767.O52
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Focusing on Migrant Women -- Part 1. Negotiating Identities -- 1. Filial Daughters, Modern Women: Migrant Domestic Workers in Post-Mao Beijing -- 2. From Peasant Women to Bar Hostesses: Gender and Modernity in Post-Mao Dalian -- 3. Indoctrination, Fetishization, and Compassion: Media Constructions of the Migrant Woman -- Part 2. Seeking a Future -- 4. Dilemmas of the Heart: Rural Working Women and Their Hopes for the Future -- 5. Living as Double Outsiders: Migrant Women's Experiences of Marriage in a County-Level City -- 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 -- 7. The Migration Experiences of Young Women from Four Counties in Sichuan and Anhui -- 8. The Impact of Labor Migration on the Well-Being and Agency of Rural Chinese Women: Cultural and Economic Contexts and the Life Course -- Part 4. Writing Lives -- 9. Migrant Women's Stories -- 10. My Life as a Migrant Worker -- Glossary of Chinese Terms -- References -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Focusing on Migrant Women -- Part 1. Negotiating Identities -- 1. Filial Daughters, Modern Women: Migrant Domestic Workers in Post-Mao Beijing -- 2. From Peasant Women to Bar Hostesses: Gender and Modernity in Post-Mao Dalian -- 3. Indoctrination, Fetishization, and Compassion: Media Constructions of the Migrant Woman -- Part 2. Seeking a Future -- 4. Dilemmas of the Heart: Rural Working Women and Their Hopes for the Future -- 5. Living as Double Outsiders: Migrant Women's Experiences of Marriage in a County-Level City -- 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 -- 7. The Migration Experiences of Young Women from Four Counties in Sichuan and Anhui -- 8. The Impact of Labor Migration on the Well-Being and Agency of Rural Chinese Women: Cultural and Economic Contexts and the Life Course -- Part 4. Writing Lives -- 9. Migrant Women's Stories -- 10. My Life as a Migrant Worker -- Glossary of Chinese Terms -- References -- Contributors -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)