Dreams Of Flight Fran Martin by Fran Martin 9781478017615, 1478017619 instant download after payment.

Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad, between expectations of fulfilling traditional roles as wife and mother versus becoming highly educated and cosmopolitan career-oriented individuals.
This book is about the international education industry, human mobilities, and neoliberal subject formation, especially its gendered aspects. Late 2020 feels like a strange time to be completing the manuscript, since, even as I write, the covid-19 global pandemic is scrambling the conditions of possibility for each of these operations in ways that were
unimaginable when this research project began.
Dreams of Flight examines the central role that geographic movement plays in shaping human lives in the era of global capitalism. It explores how transnational educational mobility—desires and potentials for it as well as representations and practices of it—has
enabled young, middle-class Chinese women to elaborate and embody emergent forms of subjectivity and feminine gender. This is a particular example of a more general phenomenon: the defining influence that mobilities of all kinds have had in making the social world of capitalist late modernity and the types of human subject possible within it.