03928nam 22007455 450 991081752570332120240131143057.00-8135-8608-90-8135-8607-010.36019/9780813586083(CKB)3840000000330803(MiAaPQ)EBC5255530(OCoLC)988581090(MdBmJHUP)muse60312(DE-B1597)526503(OCoLC)1022790569(DE-B1597)9780813586083(EXLCZ)99384000000033080320191221d2018 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Resilient Self Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans /Chien-Juh GuNew Brunswick, NJ :Rutgers University Press,[2018]©20171 online resource (198 pages) illustrations, tablesAsian American Studies Today0-8135-8606-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 AuthorThe 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.Asian American studies today.Resilience (Personality trait) in womenSex roleUnited StatesWomenUnited StatesIdentityWomenTaiwanIdentityImmigrant womenUnited StatesSocial conditionsTaiwanese AmericansSocial conditionsTaiwanEmigration and immigrationPsychological aspectsUnited StatesEmigration and immigrationPsychological aspectsTaiwan.Taiwanese American.Taiwanese.ethnicity.immigrant.immigration.settlement.social justice.visa.Resilience (Personality trait) in women.Sex roleWomenIdentity.WomenIdentity.Immigrant womenSocial conditions.Taiwanese AmericansSocial conditions.305.40951249Gu Chien-Juhauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut.1524637DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910817525703321The Resilient Self4106061UNINA