Locating Chinese Women : Historical Mobility Between China and Australia.
This ground-breaking edited collection draws together Australian historical scholarship on Chinese women, their gendered migrations, and their mobile lives between China and Australia. It considers different aspects of women's lives, both as individuals and as the wives and daughters of immigra...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hong Kong :
Hong Kong University Press,
2021.
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Colección: | Crossing Seas Ser.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This ground-breaking edited collection draws together Australian historical scholarship on Chinese women, their gendered migrations, and their mobile lives between China and Australia. It considers different aspects of women's lives, both as individuals and as the wives and daughters of immigrant men. While the number of Chinese women in Australia before 1950 was relatively small, their presence was significant and often subject to public scrutiny. Moving beyond traditional representations of women as hidden and silent, this book demonstrates that Chinese Australian women in the twentieth cent. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (289 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-256) and index. |
ISBN: | 9789888268658 9888268651 |