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Rural women in urban China : gender, migration, and social change /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacka, Tamara, 1965-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [2005]
Subjects:
Rural women > China > Social conditions.
Rural women > China > Economic conditions.
Rural-urban migration > China.
Migrant labor > China.
Migration, Internal > China.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: From the "margins" to the "center"
  • The subject
  • Between "rural idiocy" and "urban modernity"
  • Assembling working sisters
  • Place
  • In and out of place
  • The place of desire
  • People
  • Relationships
  • Identifications
  • Time
  • Narrative, time, and agency
  • Appendix 1. List of interlocutors named in the text
  • Appendix 2. Map 1. the People's Republic of China
  • Map 2. Beijing municipality.