Chien-Juh Gu

The Resilient Self

Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans

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Produktbeschreibung

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, negotiate and resist the social and psychological effects of the processes of immigration and settlement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780813586069
• ISBN-10: 0813586062
• Artikelnr.: 50557384

Autorenporträt

CHIEN-JUH GU is an associate professor of sociology at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. She is the author of Mental Health Among Taiwanese Americans: Gender, Immigration, and Transnational Struggles. 

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 1
2. Immigration, Culture, Gender, and the Self 17
3. Searching for Self in the New Land 38
4. Negotiating Egalitarianism 69
5. Performing Confucian Patriarchy 95
6. Fighting for Dignity and Respect in Racialized America 127
7. Suffering and the Resilient Self 154
Acknowledgments 165
Appendix: Demographic Information of Subjects 167
Notes 171
References 181
Index 191