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...