Gender, Work, and Family in a Chinese Economic Zone [electronic resource] : Laboring in Paradise / by Nancy E Riley.

Erişim Adresi
Link
ISBN
9789400755246
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/10113
Yazar
Riley, Nancy E.
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2013.
Yayın Bilgisi
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Fiziksel Niteleme
X, 162 p. online resource.
İçindekiler Notu
Acknowledgement -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Doing Research in the Dalian Economic Zone -- Chapter 3: Urban as Paradise: Understanding the Urban/Rural Divide -- Chapter 4: "It 's just Women's Lot": The Roler of Gender -- Chapter 5: "A Women has to struggle to get what she wants": Gender and Power -- Chapter 6: Performing Gender in a Modern Economic Zone -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- Bibliography.
Özet, vb.
This book examines the dynamics of power within the families of married women who have migrated from rural areas to China's Dalian Economic Zone.  Engaging the question of whether waged work gives women power in their families, this ethnographic study finds that women do indeed use their new positions and urban status to negotiate their family status.  However, women use these new resources not necessarily to promote their own individual liberation, but rather to strengthen their contribution as wives and, especially, as mothers.  Thus, this new modernity provides a space for the re-inscribing of traditional roles, even as it may work to give women new-found power within their families.  How and why this process occurs is related to the dual inequalities these women face as rural migrants and as women.
Konu
Sex.
Population __ Economic aspects.
Sociology.
Gender Studies.
Population Economics.
Sociology.
Kurum Adı
SpringerLink (Online service)
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