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

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The Resilient Self explores how international migration re-shapes women's senses of themselves. Chien-Juh 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, in turn...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gu, Chien-Juh, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women immigrants > Social conditions.
Women > Identity.
Sex role.
Resilience (Personality trait)
Emigration and immigration > Psychological aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Resilience (Trait de personnalite)
Rôle selon le sexe > États-Unis.
Femmes > États-Unis > Identite.
Femmes > Taiwan > Identite.
Immigrantes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Americains d'origine taiwanaise > Conditions sociales.
Sex role > United States.
Women > United States > Identity.
Women > Taiwan > Identity.
Women immigrants > United States > Social conditions.
Taiwanese Americans > Social conditions.
United States.
Taiwan.
Taiwan > Emigration and immigration > Psychological aspects.
United States > Emigration and immigration > Psychological aspects.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Immigration, culture, gender, and the self
  • Searching for self in the new land
  • Negotiating egalitarianism
  • Performing Confucian patriarchy
  • Fighting for dignity and respect in racialized America
  • Suffering and the resilient self.

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