Rural Women in Urban China: Gender, Migration, And Social Change (East Gate Books)

Contents......Page 7
List of Figures and Maps......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Introduction From the “Margins” to the “Center”......Page 15
Experience......Page 22
Experience, Subjects, and Discourse......Page 23
Experience, Discourse, and Narrative......Page 28
Narrative, Performance, and Re-presentation......Page 32
Summary of Aims and Organization of the Book......Page 37
Part I The Subject......Page 41
1 Between “Rural Idiocy” and “Urban Modernity”......Page 43
Modernity and the Peasant Question Before and After 1949......Page 45
The “Low Quality” of Peasants in Post-Mao China......Page 51
The “Tide of Peasant Workers” in Post-Mao Discourse......Page 54
Conclusion......Page 68
2 Assembling Working Sisters......Page 71
Structures and Orientations......Page 73
A “Home for Working Sisters”......Page 87
Conclusion......Page 93
Part II Place......Page 97
3 In and Out of Place......Page 99
Regulation and Surveillance......Page 103
Employment......Page 109
Work Hours and Conditions......Page 111
Housing......Page 114
Income and Expenditure......Page 121
Health......Page 123
Marriage and Children......Page 125
Conclusion......Page 127
4 The Place of Desire......Page 130
The Place Left Behind......Page 131
Finding a Life......Page 141
The Place of the Future......Page 151
Conclusion......Page 170
Part III People......Page 175
Family Relationships......Page 177
Relationships with Fellow Villagers and Urbanites......Page 204
Relations with Urbanites......Page 213
Conclusion......Page 214
6 Identifications......Page 218
Us and Them......Page 219
Traits of Difference......Page 235
Conclusion......Page 253
Part IV Time......Page 255
Migration Narratives and the Life Course......Page 257
Speaking Bitterness and Fighting for Our Rights: Migrant Narratives of Protest......Page 278
Conclusion......Page 286
Appendix 1 List of Interlocutors Named in the Text......Page 291
Appendix 2 Maps......Page 295
Notes......Page 297
Glossary......Page 313
Bibliography......Page 323
Index......Page 337