Overview
- Provides the power dynamics of migrant households
- Examines the gender division of labor and the intra-household power dynamics of migrants in China
- Explores the complexities of women's lives in a changing economic and social environment
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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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender, Work, and Family in a Chinese Economic Zone
Book Subtitle: Laboring in Paradise
Authors: Nancy E Riley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5524-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5523-9Published: 07 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9874-8Published: 14 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5524-6Published: 06 November 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 162
Topics: Gender Studies, Population Economics, Sociology, general