On the Move

On the Move

Women and Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China

  • Autor: Gaetano, Arianne; Jacka, Tamara
  • Editor: Columbia University Press
  • ISBN: 9780231127066
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780231501736
  • Lloc de publicació:  New York , United States
  • Any de publicació digital: 2004
  • Mes: Març
  • Idioma: Anglés
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