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On the Move: Women and Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China

Arianne M. Gaetano and Tamara Jacka

Paper, 368 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12707-3
$35.50 / £21.00

April, 2004
Cloth, 368 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12706-6
$82.50 / £48.50

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Introduction: Focusing on Migrant Women, by Tamara Jacka and Arianne M. Gaetano

Part 1. Negotiating Identities

1. Filial Daughters, Modern Women: Migrant Domestic Workers in Post-Mao Beijing, by Arianne M. Gaetano

2. From Peasant Women to Bar Hostesses: Gender and Modernity in Post-Mao Dalian, by Tiantian Zheng

3. Indoctrination, Fetishization, and Compassion: Media Constructions of the Migrant Woman, by Wanning Sun

Part 2. Seeking a Future

4. Dilemmas of the Heart: Rural Working Women and Their Hopes for the Future, by Louise Beynon

5. Living as Double Outsiders: Migrant Women's Experiences of Marriage in a County-Level City, by Lin Tan and Susan E. Short

Part 3. Changing Village Life

6. Out to the City and Back to the Village: The Experiences and Contributions of Rural Women Migrating from Sichuan and Anhui, by C. Cindy Fan

7. The Migration Experiences of Young Women from Four Counties in Sichuan and Anhui, by Binbin Lou, Zhenzhen Zheng, Rachel Connelly, Kenneth D. Roberts

8. The Impact of Labor Migration on the Well-Being and Agency of Rural Chinese Women: Cultural and Economic Contexts and the Life Course, by Rachel Murphy

Part 4. Writing Lives

9. Migrant Women's Stories, by Tamara Jacka

10. My Life as a Migrant Worker, by Translations by Tamara Jacka and Song Xianlin

Let Bygones Be Bygones / Cui Jingyu

The Law Is by My Side / Huang Zhihua

Burdened Youth / Mian Xiaohong

I Am a Cloud / Pang Hui

Looking Back, I Am Proud / Wang Xiangfen

Leaving Huaihua Valley: A Sichuan Girl's Own Account of Being a Migrant Worker

Working for Myself / Li Jianying

Glossary of Chinese Terms

References

List of Contributors

Index

About the Author

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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