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
Autor principal: Gaetano, Arianne M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Kvinnor på landsbygden > Kina.
Kvinnor på arbetsmarknaden > Kina.
Arbetsvandringar.
Migration.
Stadtflucht
Soziale Mobilität
Frau
Women migrant labor.
Rural women.
Rural-urban migration.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Travailleuses migrantes > Chine > Études longitudinales.
Femmes en milieu rural > Chine > Études longitudinales.
Exode rural > Chine > Études longitudinales.
Women migrant labor > China > Longitudinal studies.
Rural women > China > Longitudinal studies.
Rural-urban migration > China > Longitudinal studies.
China
China.
Longitudinal studies.
Electronic books.
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 (232 pages).
ISBN:9780824854768

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