192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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In many parts of South-East Asia, women's lifestyles are going through enormous changes as women move from traditional rural, agricultural lifestyles to modern, urban lifestyles, which often involve migration to cities, taking on paid work, and having a quite different relationship with their families. This book, based on intensive research among the women of the Bidayuh people in Sarawak, all of... Read more
List of IllustrationsList of TablesPrefaceChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. A Methodological DiscussionChapter 3. Doing Fieldwork at HomeChapter 4. The Socio-Economic Context of ChangeChapter 5. To Market, To Market: Rural-Urban Migration and Becoming ModernChapter 6. Overqualified and Underpaid: Wage Work in the Personal Services SectorChapter 7. Sex and Salaries: Single Women Migrants in the CityChapter 8. Marriage, Money and Men: Working Mothers and their HouseholdsChapter 9. The Hand that Rocks the Cradle Leaves Wage Work: Bidayuh HousewivesChapter 10. Holding their Own: Four Women and their StoriesChapter 11. ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
Biography
HEW Cheng Sim teaches in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Universtiy of Malaysia, Sarawak.
