Out to WorkAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 30 April 2015
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Out to Work is a fresh, engaging account of the lives of a group of migrant women who, while in their teens, moved from rural towns to Beijing to take up work as maids, office cleaners, hotel chambermaids, and migrant schoolteachers. Part of the vanguard of Chinaâ?Ts great rural-urban migration in the 1990s, these women were deprived of an education because their parents were unable to pay school fees for both sons and daughters. They also faced strong objections from parents, who feared for their daughtersâ?T safety and reputations. This multifaceted exploration of migrant womenâ?Ts lives demonstrates how the intersection of gendered norms and rural-urban inequalities shaped the womenâ?Ts identities and desires and makes clear the palpable material consequences the decision to migrate made in their lives. Overall, the book convincingly shows that migration for work advances rural womenâ?Ts gender equality and increases their ability to exercise agency and thus their chances to achieve success and build better lives for themselves. But it also makes clear that the socioeconomic mobility they fi nd is inadequate to completely dismantle the wider gender and rural-urban inequalities that have made these womenâ?Ts journeys so difficult.
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