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Rural women in urban China : gender, migration, and social change / Tamara Jacka.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacka, Tamara, 1965- author.
- Series:
- Gale eBooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Migrant labor--China.
- Migrant labor.
- Migration, Internal--China.
- Migration, Internal.
- Rural women--China--Economic conditions.
- Rural women.
- Rural women--China--Social conditions.
- Rural-urban migration--China.
- Rural-urban migration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 329 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focuses on the experiences of rural-urban migrants, the particular ways in which they talk about those experiences, and how those experiences affect their sense of identity. Through first-hand accounts of actual migrant workers, the author provides insights into how rural women respond to migration and life in the city; and more.
- 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:
- First published 2006 by M.E. Sharpe.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786610912162
- 9781317460602
- 131746060X
- 9781315701028
- 1315701022
- 9781317460619
- 1317460618
- 9781280912160
- 1280912162
- 9780765621603
- 0765621606
- OCLC:
- 527355674
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