Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China 0804778353, 9780804778350

Markets and bodies: women, service work, and the making of inequality in China 9780804778350, 9780804776493, 9780804776486

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Markets and Bodies: Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China 9780804778350

This book examines how gender enables the globalization of markets and how emerging forms of service labor are changing

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Bodies of Difference: Experiences of Disability and Institutional Advocacy in the Making of Modern China 9780520935563

Bodies of Difference chronicles the compelling story of disability's emergence as an area of significant sociopolit

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Legalizing gender inequality: courts, markets, and unequal pay for women in America 9780521627504, 9780521621694, 9780511087813

Based on case studies of four organizations that were sued for pay discrimination, Legalizing Gender Inequality challeng

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Women, Work, and Politics: The Political Economy of Gender Inequality 9780300153118

Looking at women's power in the home, in the workplace, and in politics from a political economy perspective, Torbe

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Out to Work: Migration, Gender, and the Changing Lives of Rural Women in Contemporary China 9780824854768

Out to Work is a fresh, engaging account of the lives of a group of migrant women who, while in their teens, moved from

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Markets Constitutions and Inequality 9781032044033, 9781032064222, 9781003202257

This interdisciplinary collection examines the significance of constitutions in setting the terms and conditions upon wh

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Beyond Bodies: Rain-making and Sense-making in Tanzania 9781442628090

Beyond Bodies examines the Ihanzu sensibilities about gender through a fine-grained ethnography of rainmaking rites.

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Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels 9780520939608

In this lively study, Rachel Sherman goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a nuanced picture of the

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Leftover Women: The resurgence of gender inequality in China 9781350221093, 9781780329215

After the 1949 revolution in China, Chairman Mao famously proclaimed that “women hold up half the sky.” In the early yea

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