Gender, Work, and Family in a Chinese Economic Zone Laboring in Paradise /

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 po...

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Main Author: Riley, Nancy E. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
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505 0 # |a 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. 
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