Caring in Times of Precarity: A Study of Single Women Doing Creative Work in Shanghai

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Abstract

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 the fundamental issue of precarity, which configures the post-Fordian, contemporary condition of our lives

Original languageEnglish
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Number of pages357
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9783319768984
ISBN (Print)9783319768977
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Dec 2018

Publication series

NamePalgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society
ISSN (Print)2730-9282
ISSN (Electronic)2730-9290

User-Defined Keywords

  • Shanghai
  • Single Women
  • Creative Careers
  • Womanhood
  • Singlehood
  • Creative Labour
  • Precarity
  • Unmarried women
  • China

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