Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Focusing on Migrant Women -- 1 Filial Daughters, Modern Women: Migrant Domestic Workers in Post-Mao Beijing -- 2 From Peasant Women to Bar Hostesses: Gender and Modernity in Post-Mao Dalian -- 3 Indoctrination, Fetishization, and Compassion: Media Constructions of the Migrant Woman -- 4 Dilemmas of the Heart: Rural Working Women and Their Hopes for the Future -- 5 Living as Double Outsiders: Migrant Women's Experiences of Marriage in a County-Level City -- 6 Out to the City and Back to the Village: The Experiences and Contributions of Rural Women Migrating from Sichuan and Anhui -- 7 The Migration Experiences of Young Women from Four Counties in Sichuan and Anhui -- 8 The Impact of Labor Migration on the Well-Being and Agency of Rural Chinese Women: Cultural and Economic Contexts and the Life Course -- 9 Migrant Women's Stories -- 10 My Life as a Migrant Worker -- Let Bygones Be Bygones -- The Law Is by My Side -- Burdened Youth -- I Am a Cloud -- Looking Back, I Am Proud -- Leaving Huaihua Valley: A Sichuan Girl's Own Account of Being a Migrant Worker -- Working for Myself -- Glossary of Chinese Terms -- References -- Contributors --Index