Introduction: Focusing on Migrant Women, by Tamara Jacka and Arianne M. Gaetano
Part 1. Negotiating Identities
1. Filial Daughters, Modern Women: Migrant Domestic Workers in Post-Mao Beijing, by Arianne M. Gaetano
2. From Peasant Women to Bar Hostesses: Gender and Modernity in Post-Mao Dalian, by Tiantian Zheng
3. Indoctrination, Fetishization, and Compassion: Media Constructions of the Migrant Woman, by Wanning Sun
Part 2. Seeking a Future
4. Dilemmas of the Heart: Rural Working Women and Their Hopes for the Future, by Louise Beynon
5. Living as Double Outsiders: Migrant Women's Experiences of Marriage in a County-Level City, by Lin Tan and Susan E. Short
Part 3. Changing Village Life
6. Out to the City and Back to the Village: The Experiences and Contributions of Rural Women Migrating from Sichuan and Anhui, by C. Cindy Fan
7. The Migration Experiences of Young Women from Four Counties in Sichuan and Anhui, by Binbin Lou, Zhenzhen Zheng, Rachel Connelly, Kenneth D. Roberts
8. The Impact of Labor Migration on the Well-Being and Agency of Rural Chinese Women: Cultural and Economic Contexts and the Life Course, by Rachel Murphy
Part 4. Writing Lives
9. Migrant Women's Stories, by Tamara Jacka
10. My Life as a Migrant Worker, by Translations by Tamara Jacka and Song Xianlin
Let Bygones Be Bygones / Cui Jingyu
The Law Is by My Side / Huang Zhihua
Burdened Youth / Mian Xiaohong
I Am a Cloud / Pang Hui
Looking Back, I Am Proud / Wang Xiangfen
Leaving Huaihua Valley: A Sichuan Girl's Own Account of Being a Migrant Worker
Working for Myself / Li Jianying
Glossary of Chinese Terms
References
List of Contributors
Index
