Rural Women in Urban China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rural Women in Urban China write by Tamara Jacka. This book was released on 2014-12-18. Rural Women in Urban China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 they talk about those experiences, and how those experiences affect their sense of identity. Through first-hand accounts of actual migrant workers, the author provides valuable insights into how rural women negotiate rural/urban experiences; how they respond to migration and life in the city; and how that experience shapes their world view, values, and relations with others. The book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the relationship between gender and social change, and of the ways in which globalization and modernity are experienced at the most personal level.
On the Move
On the Move - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Move write by Arianne M. Gaetano. This book was released on 2004. On the Move available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'On the Move' looks at the fate of women in recent rural-urban migration in China. An estimated 100 million people have moved into China's cities since the beginning of economic modernization, often to work for the lowest wages in hazardous occupations.
The Gender of Memory
The Gender of Memory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gender of Memory write by Gail Hershatter. This book was released on 2011-08-05. The Gender of Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group—rural women—at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Interweaving these women’s life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter shows how Party-state policy became local and personal, and how it affected women’s agricultural work, domestic routines, activism, marriage, childbirth, and parenting—even their notions of virtue and respectability. The women narrate their pasts from the vantage point of the present and highlight their enduring virtues, important achievements, and most deeply harbored grievances. In showing what memories can tell us about gender as an axis of power, difference, and collectivity in 1950s rural China and the present, Hershatter powerfully examines the nature of socialism and how gender figured in its creation.
Out to Work
Out to Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Out to Work write by Arianne M. Gaetano. This book was released on 2015-04-24. Out to Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Out to Work is a fresh, engaging account of the lives of a group of rural Chinese women who, while still in their teens, moved from villages to Beijing to take up work as maids, office cleaners, hotel chambermaids, and schoolteachers. By pursuing new opportunities afforded by migration and strategically applying accumulated knowledge and resources, these women were able to forge better lives for themselves and their families. But as this book also makes clear, broader social inequalities persist to make these women's futures precarious. "This book's unique approach offers readers an intimate look at the impact of labor migration on young women over a ten-year period. We follow Gaetano's informants as they adapt to Beijing, visit their home villages, and move on to new jobs and postmarital homes. Gaetano does an excellent job showing how these young female migrants navigate constraints and challenges, enhancing their own and their family's social and economic status."—Hong Zhang, Colby College "This fresh, highly readable book demonstrates vividly how gender norms and rural-urban inequalities not only shaped women's identities and aspirations but also had palpable physical and material consequences for them. Yet despite the discrimination and hardship they experienced, they were able to build better lives for themselves. Gaetano's book convincingly shows that labor migration has increased many rural women's possibilities for exercising agency."—Rachel Murphy, University of Oxford
One Country, Two Societies
One Country, Two Societies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook One Country, Two Societies write by Martin K. Whyte. This book was released on 2010-02-25. One Country, Two Societies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A collection of essays that analyzes China's foremost social cleavage: the rural-urban gap. It examines the historical background of rural-urban relations; the size and trend in the income gap between rural and urban residents; aspects of inequality apart from income; and, experiences of discrimination, particularly among urban migrants." -- BOOK PUBLISHER WEBSITE.
