| Description |
vi, 355 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 ... [et al.] -- 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. |
| Subject |
Rural women -- China -- Social conditions.
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Rural women. |
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China. |
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Social conditions. |
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Migration, Internal -- China.
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Migration, Internal. |
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China -- Social conditions -- 1976-2000.
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| Chronological Term |
1976-2000 |
| Added Author |
Gaetano, Arianne M.
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Jacka, Tamara, 1965-
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| Added Title |
Women and rural-to-urban migration in contemporary China |
| ISBN |
0231127065 |
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9780231127066 |
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0231127073 paperback |
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9780231127073 paperback |
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