4. Dilemmas of the Heart: Rural Working Women and Their Hopes for the Future

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Focusing on Migrant Women 1
5. Part 1. Negotiating Identities
6. 1. Filial Daughters, Modern Women: Migrant Domestic Workers in Post-Mao Beijing 41
7. 2. From Peasant Women to Bar Hostesses: Gender and Modernity in Post–Mao Dalian 80
8. 3. Indoctrination, Fetishization, and Compassion: Media Constructions of the Migrant Woman 109
9. Part 2. Seeking a Future
10. 4. Dilemmas of the Heart: Rural Working Women and Their Hopes for the Future 131
11. 5. Living as Double Outsiders: Migrant Women’s Experiences of Marriage in a County-Level City 151
12. Part 3. Changing Village Life
13. 6. Out to the City and Back to the Village: The Experiences and Contributions of Rural Women Migrating from Sichuan and Anhui 177
14. 7. The Migration Experiences of Young Women from Four Counties in Sichuan and Anhui 207
15. 8. The Impact of Labor Migration on the Well-Being and Agency of Rural Chinese Women: Cultural and Economic Contexts and the Life Course 243
16. Part 4. Writing Lives
17. 9. Migrant Women’s Stories 279
18. 10. My Life as a Migrant Worker 286
19. Glossary of Chinese Terms 309
20. References 317
21. Contributors 337
22. Index 341