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Rural women in urban China : gender, migration, and social change / Tamara Jacka.
Van Pelt Library HQ1767 .R327 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacka, Tamara, 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rural women--China--Social conditions.
- Rural women.
- Rural women--China--Economic conditions.
- Rural-urban migration--China.
- Rural-urban migration.
- Migrant labor.
- Economic conditions.
- Social conditions.
- China.
- Migrant labor--China.
- Migration, Internal--China.
- Migration, Internal.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2005]
- Contents:
- Introduction: From the "margins" to the "center"
- The subject
- Between "rural idiocy" and "urban modernity"
- Assembling working sisters
- Place
- In and out of place
- The place of desire
- People
- Relationships
- Identifications
- Time
- Narrative, time, and agency
- Appendix 1. List of interlocutors named in the text
- Appendix 2. Map 1. the People's Republic of China
- Map 2. Beijing municipality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-324) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0765608200
- OCLC:
- 61178094
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