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Sex, city, and the maid: between socialist fantasies and neoliberal parables
Sex, City und die Hausangestellte: zwischen sozialistischen Phantasien und neoliberalen Parabeln
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Abstract Of the many rural migrant workers who go to Chinese cities as cheap labourers, the one who interacts most intimately with urban residents is the domestic servant. In fact, precisely because of this "intimate stranger" status, the figure of the "maid" has captured the imagination of the urban populat... mehr
Of the many rural migrant workers who go to Chinese cities as cheap labourers, the one who interacts most intimately with urban residents is the domestic servant. In fact, precisely because of this "intimate stranger" status, the figure of the "maid" has captured the imagination of the urban population. This fascination is evidenced by the plethora of television narratives centring on the fraught relationships between the rural migrant woman and her male employer. This paper analyses a range of television narratives from the genres of dramas and documentaries. It shows that in these narratives, sex functions as the metaphor of social inequality between two social groups. It shows that if we explore how love, romance and marriage are constructed, we may gain some insight into processes of social and ideological contestation in the domain of cultural production.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Phantasie; Sozialismus; Hausangestellte; Frau; Arbeitsmigration; Großstadt; China; Neoliberalismus; Dokumentation; Arbeitsmarkt; Ehe; Ostasien; Erzählung; Liebe; soziale Mobilität; Arbeitskraft; Arbeitgeber; soziale Ungleichheit; Fernsehserie; Stadt-Land-Beziehung
Klassifikation
Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Migration
Siedlungssoziologie, Stadtsoziologie
Medieninhalte, Aussagenforschung
Methode
empirisch-qualitativ; empirisch
Freie Schlagwörter
Social sciences; sex; media research; domestic worker; contemporary
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2010
Seitenangabe
S. 53-69
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 39 (2010) 4
ISSN
1868-4874
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung