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Technomobility in China [electronic resource] : Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : NYU Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (279 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780814784815 (electronic bk.)
  • 081478481X (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Technomobility in China : Young Migrant Women and Mobile PhonesDDC classification:
  • 303.48330820951 305.40951
LOC classification:
  • HQ1767 .W3295 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Mobile Bodies, Mobile Technologies, and Immobile Mobility; 1. Market Reforms, Global Linkages, and (Dis)continuity in Post-Socialist China; 2. "My First Big Urban Purchase": Mobile Technologies and Modern Subjectivity; 3. Navigating Mobile Networks of Sociality and Intimacy; 4. Picturing the Self, Imagining the World; 5. Mobile Communication and Labor Politics; Conclusion: The Mobile Assemblage and Social Change in China; Appendix: The Fieldwork; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q.
RS; T; U; W; X; Y; Z; About the Author.
Summary: As unprecedented waves of young, rural women journey to cities in China, not only to work, but also to "see the world"and gain some autonomy, they regularly face significant institutional obstacles as well as deep-seated anti-rural prejudices. Based on immersive fieldwork, Cara Wallis provides an intimate portrait of the social, cultural, and economic implications of mobile communication for a group of young women engaged in unskilled service work in Beijing, where they live and work for indefinite periods of time. While simultaneously situating her work within the fields of feminist studies.
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Mobile Bodies, Mobile Technologies, and Immobile Mobility; 1. Market Reforms, Global Linkages, and (Dis)continuity in Post-Socialist China; 2. "My First Big Urban Purchase": Mobile Technologies and Modern Subjectivity; 3. Navigating Mobile Networks of Sociality and Intimacy; 4. Picturing the Self, Imagining the World; 5. Mobile Communication and Labor Politics; Conclusion: The Mobile Assemblage and Social Change in China; Appendix: The Fieldwork; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q.

RS; T; U; W; X; Y; Z; About the Author.

As unprecedented waves of young, rural women journey to cities in China, not only to work, but also to "see the world"and gain some autonomy, they regularly face significant institutional obstacles as well as deep-seated anti-rural prejudices. Based on immersive fieldwork, Cara Wallis provides an intimate portrait of the social, cultural, and economic implications of mobile communication for a group of young women engaged in unskilled service work in Beijing, where they live and work for indefinite periods of time. While simultaneously situating her work within the fields of feminist studies.

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