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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