'Just looking': Domestic workers' consumption practices and a latent geography of Beijing

Gender, Place and Culture

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 475-488

  Sun, Wanning ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

City; Consumption; Domestic worker; Latent geography; Migrant women; Spatial practices

Indexed keywords

DOMESTIC WORK; MIGRANT WORKER; MODERNITY; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECONOMY; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT;

ASIA; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 51449085311     PISSN: 0966369X     EISSN: 13600524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09663690802300829     Document Type: Article

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