Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family, and Gender in ChinaDrawing on the life stories of 266 migrants in South China, Choi and Peng examine the effect of mass rural-to-urban migration on family and gender relationships, with a specific focus on changes in men and masculinities. They show how migration has forced migrant men to renegotiate their roles as lovers, husbands, fathers, and sons. They also reveal how migrant men make masculine compromises: they strive to preserve the gender boundary and their symbolic dominance within the family by making concessions on marital power and domestic division of labor, and by redefining filial piety and fatherhood. The stories of these migrant men and their families reveal another side to China’s sweeping economic reform, modernization, and grand social transformations. |
Contents
Migration Family and Masculinity in Postsocialist China | 1 |
Marginal Men and Chinas Grand Narratives | 21 |
Courtship Sexuality and Marriage | 43 |
Conjugal Power and Diverse Strategies | 66 |
Housework and Respectability | 86 |
Migration Fatherhood and Emotionality | 105 |
Migrant Sons Renegotiating Elderly Care | 124 |
A Feminist Framework of Changing Masculinity | 145 |
Bibliography | 155 |
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Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family, and Gender in China Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi,Yinni Peng Limited preview - 2016 |
Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family, and Gender in China Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi,Yinni Peng Limited preview - 2016 |
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