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  title info:
    title: Caring in Times of Precarity
    sub title: A Study of Single Women Doing Creative Work in Shanghai
  name:
    name part: Yiu Fai, Chow.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 345 p. 9 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Caring in Times of Precarity draws together two key cultural observations: the increase in those living a single life, and the growing attraction of creative careers. Straddling this historical juncture, the book focuses on one particular group of 'precariat': single women in Shanghai in various forms of creative (self-)employment. While negotiating their share of the uncanny creative work ethos, these women also find themselves interpellated as shengnü ('left-over women') in a society configured by a mix of Confucian values, heterosexual ideals, and global images of womanhood. Following these women's professional, social and intimate lives, the book refuses to see their singlehood and creative labour as problematic, and them as victims. It departs from dominant thinking on precarity, which foregrounds and critiques the contemporary need to be flexible, mobile, and spontaneous to the extent of (self-)exploitation, accepting insecurity. The book seeks to understand- empirically and specifically-women's everyday struggles and pleasures. It highlights the up-close, everyday embodied, affective, and subjective experience in a particular Chinese city, with broader, global resonances well beyond China. Exploring the limits of the politics of precarity, the book proposes an ethics of care.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Living on my own, creatively, precariously -- Chapter 2: Living with their own images -- Chapter 3: Living with a generation - qilinghou, balinghou, jiulinghou -- Chapter 4: Balancing work/life? -- Chapter 5: To love, to live -- Chapter 6: Living with us - the case of Kunqu -- Chapter 7: Living with the city -- Chapter 8: Living with themselves, creating themselves -- Chapter 9: Epilogue.
  note: by Chow Yiu Fai.
  subject:
    topic: Culture
  subject:
    topic: Gender
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology-Asia
  subject:
    topic: Industrial sociology
  subject:
    topic: Culture and Gender
  subject:
    topic: Asian Culture
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Work
  subject:
    topic: Culture and Gender
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Culture
  classification: HM621-656
  classification: 306
  classification: 305.3
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society
  identifier: 9783319768984
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76898-4
  record info:
    record creation date: 181214
    record change date: 20191025172327.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-76898-4