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The resilient self : gender, immigration, and Taiwanese Americans /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gu, Chien-Juh, 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2017]
Series:Asian American studies today.
Subjects:
Taiwanese Americans > Social conditions.
Women immigrants > United States > Social conditions.
Women > Taiwan > Identity.
Women > United States > Identity.
Sex role > United States.
Resilience (Personality trait)
United States > Emigration and immigration > Psychological aspects.
Taiwan > Emigration and immigration > Psychological aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Immigration, culture, gender, and the self
  • Searching for self in the new land
  • Negotiating egalitarianism
  • Performing Confucian patriarchy
  • Fighting for dignity and respect in racialized America
  • Suffering and the resilient self.