Drawing upon extensive life history interviews, this book makes the voices of ordinary women workers heard and applies feminist perspectives on women and work t
This book examines a three-way interaction among market, state, and family in China’s recent market reform. It depicts transformations in urban women’s expe
Based on in-depth ethnographic research - and using an approach that seeks to understand how migration is experienced by the migrants themselves - this is a fas
Although it is generally believed in China that socialism raised women’s status and paid work liberated them from the shackles of patriarchy, the economic ref