Markets and Bodies : Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China.
Material type: TextPublisher: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (229 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780804778350Subject(s): Equality -- China | Sex role in the work environment -- China | Women -- China -- Social conditions | Women -- Employment -- China | Women service industries workers -- ChinaGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Markets and Bodies : Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in ChinaDDC classification: 306.360820951 LOC classification: HD6073Online resources: Click to ViewIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Global Markets, Local Bodies -- 1. "The Customer Is God": Women and China's New Occupational Landscape -- 2. Virtual Personalism: Importing Global Luxury and Emphasized Femininity to the Beijing Transluxury Hotel -- 3. Virtuous Professionalism: Localizing Global Luxury at the Kunming Transluxury Hotel -- 4. Aspirational Urbanism: Consuming Respect in China's Informal Service Sector -- 5. Embodying Consumer Markets at Work -- Afterword: Embodiment, the Research, and the Researcher -- Notes -- References -- Index.
This book examines how gender enables the globalization of markets and how emerging forms of service labor are changing women's social status in China.
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