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Corporate Women in Contemporary China - "We've Always Worked" (Hardcover)
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Corporate Women in Contemporary China - "We've Always Worked" (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
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Based on extensive, multi-sited ethnographic research, this book
focuses on the culture of work in today's urban China and on how it
has permeated beyond the workplace to shape bodily training, family
life, and kinship and social relationships among white-collar women
in their twenties and thirties. Facing challenges to cope with the
increasingly intensified dual burden of work and family,
whitecollar women are not turning their backs on their jobs but are
turning their bodies and homes into work. In an era when the state
and society heighten pressure on individual young women's
productivity and reproductivity at the same time, the book examines
how white-collar women seek to protect their right to work, embody
a work ethic, and make their reproductive life a productive domain.
Integrating studies of labor, the body, gender, and kinship, this
book shows how the ethics and strictly defined discipline of hard
work and overtime work are transposed from the office cubicle to
the gym and home. It thereby demonstrates how the emergence,
embodiment, and extension of a work culture perpetuate the hegemony
of the work ethic, and how they have exerted a profound impact on
women's bodies, selves, and lives.
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