Engaging the question of whether waged work gives Chinese women power in their families, this book analyzes the finding that women use jobs and urban status as a tool in negotiating their family status, to strengthen their contribution as wives and mothers.
Engaging the question of whether waged work gives Chinese women power in their families, this book analyzes the finding that women use jobs and urban ...
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...
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. Eng...
