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When Women Come First.
With a subtle yet penetrating understanding of the intricate interplay of gender, race, and class, Sheba George examines an unusual immigration pattern to analyze what happens when women who migrate before men become the breadwinners in the family. Focusing on a group of female nurses who moved from...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2001.
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| 520 | |a With a subtle yet penetrating understanding of the intricate interplay of gender, race, and class, Sheba George examines an unusual immigration pattern to analyze what happens when women who migrate before men become the breadwinners in the family. Focusing on a group of female nurses who moved from India to the United States before their husbands, she shows that this story of economic mobility and professional achievement conceals underlying conditions of upheaval not only in the families and immigrant community but also in the sending community in India. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a List of Illustrations and Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Maps; Introduction; 1. Contradictions of Gender When Women Immigrate First; 2. Work: Nursing, Women's Networks, and Men "Tied to a Stake"; 3. Home: Redoing Gender in Immigrant Households; 4. Community: Creating Little Kerala and the Paradox of "Men Who Play" in the Church; 5. Transnational Connections: The Janus-Faced Production of an Immigrant Community; 6. Conclusions; Appendix 1: Interview Participants by Household Type; Appendix 2: Types of Nursing Jobs. | |
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