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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Asian American Studies TodayPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) : 4 black and white photographs, 1 tableContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813586069
  • 9780813586083
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.40951249
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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, negotiate and resist the social and psychological effects of the processes of immigration and settlement. Most of the women immigrated as dependents when their U.S.-educated husbands found professional jobs upon graduation. Constrained by their dependent visas, these women could not work outside of the home during the initial phase of their settlement. The significant contrast of their lives before and after immigration-changing from successful professionals to foreign housewives-generated feelings of boredom, loneliness, and depression. Mourning their lost careers and lacking fulfillment in homemaking, these highly educated immigrant women were forced to redefine the meaning of work and housework, which in time shaped their perceptions of themselves and others in the family, at work, and in the larger community.
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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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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, negotiate and resist the social and psychological effects of the processes of immigration and settlement. Most of the women immigrated as dependents when their U.S.-educated husbands found professional jobs upon graduation. Constrained by their dependent visas, these women could not work outside of the home during the initial phase of their settlement. The significant contrast of their lives before and after immigration-changing from successful professionals to foreign housewives-generated feelings of boredom, loneliness, and depression. Mourning their lost careers and lacking fulfillment in homemaking, these highly educated immigrant women were forced to redefine the meaning of work and housework, which in time shaped their perceptions of themselves and others in the family, at work, and in the larger community.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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