1st Edition
Rural Women in Urban China Gender, Migration, and Social Change
By Tamara Jacka
Copyright 2006
345 Pages
by
Routledge
345 Pages
by
Routledge
345 Pages
by
Routledge
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Based on in-depth ethnographic research - and using an approach that seeks to understand how migration is experienced by the migrants themselves - this is a fascinating study of the experiences of women in rural China who joined the vast migration to Beijing and other cities at the end of the twentieth century. It focuses on the experiences of rural-urban migrants, the particular ways in which... Read more
Introduction: From the "Margins" to the "Center"; Part One. The Subject; 1. Between "Rural Idiocy" and "Urban Modernity"; 2. Assembling Working Sisters; Part Two. Place; 3. In and Out of Place; 4. The Place of Desire; Part Three. People; 5. Relationships; 6. Identifications; Part Four. Time; 7. 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.
Biography
Tamara Jacka
