Out to work : migration, gender, and the changing lives of rural women in contemporary China / Arianne M. Gaetano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaetano, Arianne M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women migrant labor--China--Longitudinal studies.

Women migrant labor.

Rural women--China--Longitudinal studies.

Rural women.

Rural-urban migration--China--Longitudinal studies.

Rural-urban migration.

China.

Genre:

Longitudinal studies.

Physical Description:

ix, 170 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2015]

Summary:

Out to Work is a fresh, engaging account of the lives of a group of rural Chinese women who, while still in their teens, moved from villages to Beijing to take up work as maids, office cleaners, hotel chambermaids, and schoolteachers. By pursuing new opportunities afford by migration and strategically applying accumulated knowledge and resources, these women were able to forge better lives for themselves and their families. But as this book also makes clear, broader social inequalities persist to make these women's futures precarious. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: a new beginning

Rural women and migration under market-socialism

Dutiful daughters and migration desires

Gendered social networks and migration pathways

Menial women and model workers

From country bumpkins to urban sophisticates

Migrant working wives and mothers

Conclusion: the changing lives of rural women.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780824840990

0824840992

9780824840983

0824840984

OCLC:

890107224