The Resilient Self : Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans.

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This book explores how international migration re-shapes women's senses of themselves. Gu uses life-history interviews and ethnographic observations to illustrate how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women who negotiate and resist the soc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gu, Chien-Juh
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2018.
Colección:Asian American Studies Today Ser.
Temas:
Resilience (Personality trait)
Sex role > United States.
Taiwanese Americans > Social conditions.
Women > Taiwan > Identity.
Women > United States > Identity.
Women immigrants > United States > Social conditions.
Taiwan.
Taiwanese American.
Taiwanese.
ethnicity.
immigrant.
immigration.
settlement.
social justice.
visa.
Résilience (Trait de personnalité)
Rôle selon le sexe > États-Unis.
Américains d'origine taiwanaise > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Taiwan > Identité.
Femmes > États-Unis > Identité.
Immigrantes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Emigration and immigration > Psychological aspects
Sex role
Women > Identity
Women immigrants > Social conditions
Taiwan > Emigration and immigration > Psychological aspects.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Psychological aspects.
États-Unis > Émigration et immigration > Aspect psychologique.
Taiwan
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Immigration, Culture, Gender, and the Self; Chapter 3. Searching for Self in the New Land; Chapter 4. Negotiating Egalitarianism; Chapter 5. Performing Confucian Patriarchy; Chapter 6. Fighting for Dignity and Respect; Chapter 7. Suffering and the Resilient Self; Appendix: Demographic Information of Subjects; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Index; About the Author.

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