Title: Specialization of the rural: Reinterpreting the labor mobility of rural young women in post‐Mao China
Abstract: In this article I examine rural Chinese women's migration to the cities before and after the post‐Mao reform. I argue that rural young women's pursuit of a modern identity during the more recent migration has to be understood in the context of a changed rural‐urban relationship resulting from China's postsocialist development in an era of flexible accumulation. I analyze how a contradiction between freedom and violence dialectically constitutes the search for a new, modern subjectivity by rural young women in China today.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-11-01
Language: en
Type: article
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