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

The Resilient Self : : Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans / / Chien-Juh Gu.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Gu, Chien-Juh,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018]
©2017
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Asian American Studies Today
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.) :; 4 black and white photographs, 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Immigration, Culture, Gender, and the Self
  • 3. Searching for Self in the New Land
  • 4. Negotiating Egalitarianism
  • 5. Performing Confucian Patriarchy
  • 6. Fighting for Dignity and Respect
  • 7. Suffering and the Resilient Self
  • Appendix: Demographic Information of Subjects
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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