LEADER 05200nam 2201177Ia 450 001 9910783314503321 005 20230207223631.0 010 $a9786612357978 010 $a0-520-93835-6 010 $a1-282-35797-2 010 $a1-4175-9329-6 010 $a1-59875-548-X 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520938359 035 $a(CKB)1000000000030781 035 $a(EBL)231932 035 $a(OCoLC)475938433 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000271130 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11954671 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000271130 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10281394 035 $a(PQKB)10318193 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC231932 035 $a(OCoLC)60311983 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30786 035 $a(DE-B1597)518763 035 $a(OCoLC)973979764 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520938359 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL231932 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10079969 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235797 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000030781 100 $a20040907d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhen women come first$b[electronic resource] $egender and class in transnational migration /$fSheba Mariam George 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-24319-6 311 $a0-520-24318-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Women as primary immigrants and breadwinners -- Work -- Home -- Community -- Transnational connections -- Conclusion. 330 $aWith a subtle yet penetrating understanding of the intricate interplay of gender, race, and class, Sheba George examines an unusual immigration pattern to analyze what happens when women who migrate before men become the breadwinners in the family. Focusing on a group of female nurses who moved from India to the United States before their husbands, she shows that this story of economic mobility and professional achievement conceals underlying conditions of upheaval not only in the families and immigrant community but also in the sending community in India. This richly textured and impeccably researched study deftly illustrates the complex reconfigurations of gender and class relations concealed behind a quintessential American success story. When Women Come First explains how men who lost social status in the immigration process attempted to reclaim ground by creating new roles for themselves in their church. Ironically, they were stigmatized by other upper class immigrants as men who needed to "play in the church" because the "nurses were the bosses" in their homes. At the same time, the nurses were stigmatized as lower class, sexually loose women with too much independence. George's absorbing story of how these women and men negotiate this complicated network provides a groundbreaking perspective on the shifting interactions of two nations and two cultures. 606 $aWomen, East Indian$zUnited States$xSocial conditions 606 $aWomen immigrants$zUnited States$xSocial conditions 606 $aWomen, East Indian$xEmployment$zUnited States 606 $aWomen foreign workers$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aNurses$zUnited States$xSocial conditions 606 $aEast Indians$zUnited States$xSocial conditions 606 $aSex role$zUnited States 606 $aMan-woman relationships$zUnited States 606 $aMan-woman relationships$zIndia 606 $aTransnationalism 610 $aamerican success story. 610 $achurch roles. 610 $aclass issues. 610 $across cultural. 610 $aeconomic mobility. 610 $aemigration and immigration. 610 $agender issues. 610 $agender relations. 610 $agender studies. 610 $aimmigrant communities. 610 $aimmigrant experiences. 610 $aimmigrant women. 610 $aimmigration patterns. 610 $aindia. 610 $anonfiction. 610 $anurses. 610 $aprofessional women. 610 $arace and class. 610 $asending communities. 610 $asocial networks. 610 $asocial status. 610 $atextbooks. 610 $atransnational migration. 610 $aunited states. 610 $awomens history. 610 $aworking women. 615 0$aWomen, East Indian$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aWomen immigrants$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aWomen, East Indian$xEmployment 615 0$aWomen foreign workers$xSocial aspects 615 0$aNurses$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aEast Indians$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aSex role 615 0$aMan-woman relationships 615 0$aMan-woman relationships 615 0$aTransnationalism. 676 $a305.48/891411073 700 $aGeorge$b Sheba Mariam$f1966-$01467806 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783314503321 996 $aWhen women come first$93678646 997 $aUNINA