Review of: Nancy E. Riley: Gender, Work, and Family in a Chinese Economic Zone. Laboring in Paradise. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2013.
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https://doi.org/10.14766/1149Keywords:
Arbeit, Familie, Migration, Geschlecht, Gender, Intersektionalität, RegionalstudienAbstract
The book is particularly useful for scholars who deal with the everyday realities of female migrant laborers in China from a gender theoretical perspective. Nancy E. Riley is ethnographically interested in the correlation between gender, work, and family. In practice, the author addresses the question as to what extent women working in the Dalian Economic Zone (DEZ) are able to utilize their gainful employment as a resource of social mobility as well as negotiation of innerfamilial positions of power. The focus on this (special) economic zone and the familial everyday realities of women offers exciting insights into the economically rising China and the concomitant social transformation of gender relations.
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