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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gu, Chien-Juh, Author.

Series:

Asian American studies today.

Asian American Studies Today

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Resilience (Personality trait) in women.

Sex role--United States.

Sex role.

Women--United States--Identity.

Women.

Women--Taiwan--Identity.

Women immigrants--United States--Social conditions.

Women immigrants.

Taiwanese Americans--Social conditions.

Taiwanese Americans.

Taiwan--Emigration and immigration--Psychological aspects.

Taiwan.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Psychological aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (198 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780813586083

0813586089

9780813586076

0813586070

OCLC:

988581090