Out to Work : : Migration, Gender, and the Changing Lives of Rural Women in Contemporary China / / Arianne M. Gaetano.
Out to Work is a fresh, engaging account of the lives of a group of migrant women who, while in their teens, moved from rural towns to Beijing to take up work as maids, office cleaners, hotel chambermaids, and migrant schoolteachers. Part of the vanguard of China's great rural-urban migration i...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A New Beginning -- Chapter One: Rural Women and Migration under Market Socialism -- Chapter Two: Dutiful Daughters and Migration Desires -- Chapter Three: Gendered Social Networks and Migration Pathways -- Chapter Four: Menial Women and Model Workers -- Chapter Five: From Country Bumpkins to Urban Sophisticates -- Chapter Six: Migrant Working Wives and Mothers -- Conclusion: The Changing Lives of Rural Women -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A New Beginning -- Chapter One: Rural Women and Migration under Market Socialism -- Chapter Two: Dutiful Daughters and Migration Desires -- Chapter Three: Gendered Social Networks and Migration Pathways -- Chapter Four: Menial Women and Model Workers -- Chapter Five: From Country Bumpkins to Urban Sophisticates -- Chapter Six: Migrant Working Wives and Mothers -- Conclusion: The Changing Lives of Rural Women -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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