Gender, modernity and male migrant workers in China : becoming a 'modern' man /
Rural-urban migration within China has transformed and reshaped rural people's lives during the past few decades, and has been one of the most visible phenomena of the economic reforms enacted since the late 1970s. Whilst Feminist scholars have addressed rural women's experience of struggl...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2013
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| Series: | Routledge contemporary China series.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Representing 'peasant workers'
- 3. Leaving home and being a 'filial son'
- 4. 'Father-son' relations and/or becoming urban working-class
- 5. Conclusion : becoming a 'modern' man
- 6. Postscript : youth, aspirations and masculinities.
