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

• Main Author: Riley, Nancy E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Population.; Sociology.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; Social Sciences.; Gender Studies.; Population Economics.; Sociology, general.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.