Out to Work：Migration, Gender, and the Changing Lives of Rural Women in Contemporary China

　　Out to Work is a fresh, engaging account of the lives of a group of rural Chinese women who, while still in their teens, moved from villages to Beijing to take up work as maids, office cleaners, hotel chambermaids, and schoolteachers. By pursuing new opportunities afforded by migration and strategically applying accumulated knowledge and resources, these women were able to forge better lives for themselves and their families. But as this book also makes clear, broader social inequalities persist to make these women’s futures precarious.

作者簡介



Arianne M. Gaetano

　　Arianne M. Gaetano is assistant professor of anthropology and women’s studies at Auburn University.