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Arianne Gaetano
Arianne Gaetano was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for
East and Southeast Asian Studies, Lund University. She received a PhD in
Anthropology and Certificate in Gender Studies from the University of
Southern California in 2005. During 2006-2007 she was a post-doctoral
fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
Her primary research interests are cultural identities, social roles,
and inequality in contemporary China. In particular her work focuses on
rural-urban migration, gender relations, and marriage and family. She
was co-editor (with Tamara Jacka) and contributor to On the Move:
Women and Rural-to-Urban Migration in Contemporary China (Columbia
University Press 2004) and has forthcoming articles in Gender, Place
and Culture as well as Visual Anthropology Review.
At
the Centre, Arianne plans to finalize a book manuscript, New
Directions, New Destinies: Rural-Urban Migrant Women Remaking Gender and
Transforming Contemporary China, that incorporates her dissertation
and updates it with new research conducted in 2006-08. She also will
follow through to publication a special journal issue (co-edited with
Brenda S.A. Yeoh) that presents selected papers from an international
workshop she convened in 2007 at the Asia Research Institute, on Women
and Migration in Globalizing Asia. In addition, Arianne will undertake
two new, related projects under the rubric of Gender and Family Change
in Contemporary China. The first investigates the growing phenomenon of
delayed marriage or non-marriage among women in China’s cities, and uses
ethnographic methods to explore their self-identities, and how these are
articulated in relation to dominant discourses on gender and family. The
second project, pending funding, focuses on the impact of return
migration on women’s family and gender roles, relations, and identities.
In different ways, each project seeks to understand how “family” is
being sustained, challenged, and transformed in contemporary China, and
in particular, women’s agency in this process. Each study will document
changing meanings, practices, affects, and expectations of family
produced by single women and migrant women, respectively. I will
evaluate the impacts of such changes on women, as well as how cultural
ideals are reproduced or reconfigured through everyday responses to the
challenges of contemporary China, and why women may paradoxically
perpetuate gender inequality through their own emotional and material
investment in the ideal of family and its associated gender roles and
identities.
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