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Asian American women and men : labor, laws, and love / Yen Le Espiritu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Espiritu, Yen Le, 1963-
- Series:
- Gender lens series
- The gender lens series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asian Americans--Social conditions.
- Asian Americans.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 176 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2008]
- Summary:
- Labor, laws, and love. Espiritu explores how racist and gendered labor conditions and immigration laws have affected relations between and among Asian American women and men.
- Contents:
- Labor, laws, and love
- Stretching gender, family, and community boundaries, 1840s-1930s
- Changing lives : World War II and the postwar years
- Contemporary Asian America : immigration, increasing diversity, and changing resources
- Ideological racism and cultural resistance
- Beyond dualisms : constructing an imagined community.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-165) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780742560604
- 0742560600
- 9780742560611
- 0742560619
- OCLC:
- 162118838
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