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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: a new beginning
  • Rural women and migration under market-socialism
  • Dutiful daughters and migration desires
  • Gendered social networks and migration pathways
  • Menial women and model workers
  • From country bumpkins to urban sophisticates
  • Migrant working wives and mothers
  • Conclusion: the changing lives of rural women.

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