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On the Move
Women and Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China
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2004
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Tamara Jacka is Fellow, Gender Relations Center, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. She is the author of Women's Work in Rural China: Change and Continuity in an Era of Reform. She lives in Canberra, Australia. Arianne M. Gaetano is an advanced doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of Southern California. She currently resides in Massachusetts.
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Paola Voci:
On the Move is an extremely well-researched book... [It] carefully balances the emphasis on agency with accurate descriptions of the women's struggles.
On the Move is an extremely well-researched book... [It] carefully balances the emphasis on agency with accurate descriptions of the women's struggles.
Alice Goldstein:
The book provides an important service in highlighting the many issues involved in women's rural-to-urban migration.
Hiroko Tomida:
This book is a fascinating and important study. It should appeal to many readers.
Satyananda J. Gabriel:
A welcome addition to the burgeoning literature on international migration...It behooves social scientists in all fields, from anthropology to economics, to pay heed to their message.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Focusing on Migrant Women
1 - Part 1. Negotiating Identities
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1. Filial Daughters, Modern Women: Migrant Domestic Workers in Post-Mao Beijing
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2. From Peasant Women to Bar Hostesses: Gender and Modernity in Post–Mao Dalian
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3. Indoctrination, Fetishization, and Compassion: Media Constructions of the Migrant Woman
109 - Part 2. Seeking a Future
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4. Dilemmas of the Heart: Rural Working Women and Their Hopes for the Future
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5. Living as Double Outsiders: Migrant Women’s Experiences of Marriage in a County-Level City
151 - Part 3. Changing Village Life
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6. Out to the City and Back to the Village: The Experiences and Contributions of Rural Women Migrating from Sichuan and Anhui
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7. The Migration Experiences of Young Women from Four Counties in Sichuan and Anhui
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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 - Part 4. Writing Lives
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9. Migrant Women’s Stories
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10. My Life as a Migrant Worker
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Glossary of Chinese Terms
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References
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Contributors
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Index
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