Oliva Espin

Women Crossing Boundaries (eBook, PDF)

A Psychology of Immigration and Transformations of Sexuality

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1999. This book looks at the consequences of border crossings and immigration on women and their culture and sexual orientations. Espin demonstrates how deeply sexuality, language and gender affected by this large life change with the aid of 43 biographies of adolescent and adult women.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135963859
• Artikelnr.: 39478986

Autorenporträt

Oliva M. Espin is Professor of Women's Studies at San Diego State University. She is the author of Latina Healers: Power, Tradition and Culture (1996) and has written widely about the psychology of women from different cultures and about women's experiences as immigrants and refugees.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Women's Experience of Migration
Chapter 2 Collecting Immigrant Women's Life Narratives
Chapter 3 The Stories
Chapter 4 Migration, Sexuality, and the Preservation of Culture and Tradition
Chapter 5 Language
Chapter 6 Mothers, Daughters, and Migration
Chapter 7 The Experience of Lesbian Immigrants
Chapter 8 Final Thoughts