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 positions and urban status to negotiate
their family status. However, women use these new resources not
necessarily to promote their own individual liberation, but rather to
strengthen their contribution as wives and, especially, as mothers.
Thus, this new modernity provides a space for the re-inscribing of
traditional roles, even as it may work to give women new-found power
within their families. How and why this process occurs is related to
the dual inequalities these women face as rural migrants and as women.
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ISBN
9789400755246
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Springer
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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