Out to work : migration, gender, and the changing lives of rural women in contemporary China /

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A fresh, engaging account of the lives of a group of migrant women who moved from rural towns to Beijing to take up work as maids, office cleaners, hotel chambermaids, and migrant schoolteachers. This exploration of migrant women's lives demonstrates how the intersection of gendered norms and r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gaetano, Arianne M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015.
Temas:
Rural-urban migration > China > Longitudinal studies.
Rural women > China > Longitudinal studies.
Women migrant labor > China > Longitudinal studies.
Exode rural > Chine > Études longitudinales.
Femmes en milieu rural > Chine > Études longitudinales.
Travailleuses migrantes > Chine > Études longitudinales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Rural-urban migration.
Rural women.
Women migrant labor.
Frau
Soziale Mobilität
Stadtflucht
Migration.
Arbetsvandringar.
Kvinnor på arbetsmarknaden > Kina.
Kvinnor på landsbygden > Kina.
China.
China
Longitudinal studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:A fresh, engaging account of the lives of a group of migrant women who moved from rural towns to Beijing to take up work as maids, office cleaners, hotel chambermaids, and migrant schoolteachers. This exploration of migrant women's lives demonstrates how the intersection of gendered norms and rural-urban inequalities shaped the women's identities and desires and makes clear the material consequences migration made in their lives.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780824854768
0824854764
0824840984
9780824840983
0824868196
9780824868192

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