Masculine Compromise
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Masculine Compromise

Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi, Yinni Peng

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Masculine Compromise

Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi, Yinni Peng

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Drawing 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.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780520963252
Edition
1
Topic
Scienze sociali
Subtopic
Sociologia

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. 1. Introduction: Migration, Family, and Masculinity in Postsocialist China
  5. 2. Marginal Men and China’s Grand Narratives
  6. 3. Striking a Balance: Courtship, Sexuality, and Marriage
  7. 4. Conjugal Power and Diverse Strategies
  8. 5. Housework and Respectability
  9. 6. Migration, Fatherhood, and Emotionality
  10. 7. Filial Piety from Afar: Migrant Sons Renegotiating Elderly Care
  11. 8. Masculine Compromise: A Feminist Framework of Changing Masculinity
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index