Gender, Work, and Family in a Chinese Economic Zone

Laboring in Paradise
2013
ISBN: 978-94-007-9874-8
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, 162 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 2701 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Riley, Nancy E

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.