Gender, Work, and Family in a Chinese Economic Zone: by Nancy E Riley
By Nancy E Riley
This publication examines the dynamics of strength in the households of married girls who've migrated from rural components to China's Dalian monetary Zone. enticing the query of even if waged paintings offers girls strength of their households, this ethnographic examine reveals that ladies do certainly use their new positions and concrete prestige to barter their relatives status. notwithstanding, girls use those new assets now not unavoidably to advertise their very own person liberation, yet fairly to bolster their contribution as better halves and, particularly, as mothers. therefore, this new modernity offers an area for the re-inscribing of conventional roles, at the same time it may well paintings to offer girls new-found energy inside their families. How and why this technique happens is said to the twin inequalities those ladies face as rural migrants and as ladies.
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