Rural women in urban China
Subtitle: gender, migration, and social change
By: Tamara Jacka.
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Armonk, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Subjects: Rural women -- China -- Social conditions; Rural women -- China -- Economic conditions; Rural-urban migration -- China; Migrant labor -- China; Migration, Internal -- China
Notes: "An East Gate book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-324) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: From the "margins" to the "center"; title: The subject; title: Between "rural idiocy" and "urban modernity"; title: Assembling working sisters; title: Place; title: In and out of place; title: The place of desire; title: People; title: Relationships; title: Identifications; title: Time; title: Narrative, time, and agency; title: Appendix 1. List of interlocutors named in the text; title: Appendix 2. Map 1. the People's Republic of China; title: Map 2. Beijing municipality.