Imposing Decency

Imposing Decency

The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870–1920

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.
  • 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 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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