Out to Work: Migration, Gender, and the Changing Lives of Rural Women in Contemporary China 9780824854768

On the Move: Women and Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China 9780231501736

This book explores the impact of migration on the identities, values, worldviews, and social positions of migrant women

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Women Police in Contemporary China: Gender and Policing 1000461874, 9781000461879

This is the first book to look at women in policing in the mainland of the People’s Republic of China. Informed by empir

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Mothers, Wives and Changing Lives: Women in Mid-Twentieth-Century Rural Wales 0708323340, 9780708323342

Despite the great changes that the twentieth century brought to the lives and roles of the women of rural Wales, there h

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Gender and Work in Urban China: Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation 041539211X, 9780415392112, 9780203964934

Although it is generally believed in China that socialism raised women’s status and paid work liberated them from the sh

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Gender and Employment in Rural China 9781317425960, 2016050965, 9781138915763, 9781315690056

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Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family, and Gender in China 9780520963252

Drawing on the life stories of 266 migrants in South China, Choi and Peng examine the effect of mass rural-to-urban migr

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Widows in White: Migration and the Transformation of Rural Women, Sicily, 1880-1928 9781442683488

Tracing the changing notions of female and male in rural Sicily, Linda Reeder examines the lives of rural Sicilian women

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Woman-work: women and the party in revolutionary China 9780198272311

Xiang Jingyu, one of the leading theorists of the early Chinese Communist Party, envisaged an alliance of revolutionary

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Defining Work: Gender, Professional Work, and the Case of Rural Clergy 9780773560208

For rural clergy, the lines between private life and professional life can blur. Their offices are often in their homes,

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Out of Sync and Out of Work: History and the Obsolescence of Labor in Contemporary Culture 978-0813597119, 0813597110

Out of Sync & Out of Work explores the representation of obsolescence, particularly of labor, in film and literature

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