Corporate women in contemporary China : "We've always worked" / Xinyan Peng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peng, Xinyan, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Routledge contemporary China series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Businesswomen--China.

Businesswomen.

Women executives--China.

Women executives.

Women--China--Social conditions--21st century.

Women.

Women--Social conditions.

China.

Physical Description:

xii, 199 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Summary:

"Based on extensive, multi-sited ethnographic research, this book focuses on the culture of work in today's urban China, and how it has permeated beyond the workplace to shape bodily training, family life, and kinship and social relationships among young white-collar women in their twenties and thirties. Facing challenges to cope with the increasingly intensified dual burden of work and family, white-collar women are not turning their back to their jobs but are turning their bodies and homes into work. In an era when the state and society heighten pressure on individual young women's productivity and reproductivity at the same time, the book examines how white-collar women seek to protect their right to work, embody a work ethic, and make their reproductive life a productive domain. Integrating studies of labor, the body, gender, and kinship, this book shows how the work ethic of hard work and overtime work gets transposed from the office cubicle to gym and home, with labor discipline applying both at and away from work strictly defined. It thereby demonstrates how the emergence, embodiment, and extension of a work culture perpetuate the hegemony of the work ethic, and have exerted a profound impact on women's bodies, selves, and lives"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Work

1. The 6 p.m. Struggle: Changing Configurations of Work, a Culture of Overtime Work, and Corporate Governmentality

2. Falling into the "Work Hole"?: Accommodating a Culture of Overtime Work

3. Protecting Work: Desiring Stability, Developing the Worker-Self, and Improving Employability

pt. II Body

4. "You've Got to Have Core Muscles": Disciplining Hardworking Bodies

pt. III Home

5. Women between Nei and Wat: Leaving Home to Work and Retreating from Work to Home

6. Spreadsheet Wife and Pep Talk Mom: Turning Home into Work

7. Doing the Job and Not Doing It Well: Grandmaternal Labor and Care Work in Urban Chinese Families.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Peng, Xinyan. Corporate women in contemporary China

ISBN:

9780367685621

0367685620

9780367685652

0367685655

OCLC:

1282600230

Publisher Number:

99992475237