书目名称 | Caring in Times of Precarity | 副标题 | A Study of Single Wo | 编辑 | Chow Yiu Fai | 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/223/222097/222097.mp4 | 概述 | Explores how women are living single, creative lives in a Chinese city.Considers the lives of these women holistically, taking into account their professional, social and intimate lives.Engages with t | 丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .Caring in Times of Precarity .draws together two key cultural observations: the increase in those living a single life, and the growing attraction of creative careers. Straddling this historical juncture, the book focuses on one particular group of ‘precariat’: single women in Shanghai in various forms of creative (self-)employment. While negotiating their share of the uncanny creative work ethos, these women also find themselves interpellated as. shengnü .(‘left-over women’) in a society configured by a mix of Confucian values, heterosexual ideals, and global images of womanhood. Following these women’s professional, social and intimate lives, the book refuses to see their singlehood and creative labour as problematic, and them as victims. It departs from dominant thinking on precarity, which foregrounds and critiques the contemporary need to be flexible, mobile, and spontaneous to the extent of (self-)exploitation, accepting insecurity. The book seeks to understand– empirically and specifically–women’s everyday struggles and pleasures. It highlights the up-close, everyday embodied, affective, and subjective experience in a particular Chinese city, with broader, global resonances | 出版日期 | Book 2019 | 关键词 | Shanghai; Single Women; Creative Careers; Womanhood; Singlehood; Creative Labour; Precarity; Unmarried wome | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76898-4 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-76898-4Series ISSN 2730-9282 Series E-ISSN 2730-9290 | issn_series | 2730-9282 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019 |
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