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Masculine compromise : migration, family, and gender in China / Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi, Yinni Peng.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yuk-Ping Choi, Susanne, Author.
- Peng, Yinni, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Migration, Internal--China, Southeast.
- Migration, Internal.
- Sex role--China.
- Sex role.
- Men--Family relationships--China, Southeast.
- Men.
- Urban-rural migration--China, Southeast.
- Urban-rural migration.
- Rural-urban migration--China, Southeast.
- Rural-urban migration.
- China--Social conditions--1949-.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (196 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing on the life stories of 266 migrants in South China, Choi and Peng examine the effect of mass rural-to-urban migration on family and gender relationships, with a specific focus on changes in men and masculinities. They show how migration has forced migrant men to renegotiate their roles as lovers, husbands, fathers, and sons. They also reveal how migrant men make masculine compromises: they strive to preserve the gender boundary and their symbolic dominance within the family by making concessions on marital power and domestic division of labor, and by redefining filial piety and fatherhood. The stories of these migrant men and their families reveal another side to China's sweeping economic reform, modernization, and grand social transformations.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER 1. Introduction: Migration, Family, and Masculinity in Postsocialist China
- CHAPTER 2. Marginal Men and China's Grand Narratives
- CHAPTER 3. Striking a Balance: Courtship, Sexuality, and Marriage
- CHAPTER 4. Conjugal Power and Diverse Strategies
- CHAPTER 5. Housework and Respectability
- CHAPTER 6. Migration, Fatherhood, and Emotionality
- CHAPTER 7. Filial Piety from Afar: Migrant Sons Renegotiating Elderly Care
- CHAPTER 8. Masculine Compromise: A Feminist Framework of Changing Masculinity
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780520963252
- 0520963253
- OCLC:
- 933507841
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