LEADER 03928nam 22007455 450 001 9910796588103321 005 20201028185430.0 010 $a0-8135-8608-9 010 $a0-8135-8607-0 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813586083 035 $a(CKB)3840000000330803 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5255530 035 $a(OCoLC)988581090 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse60312 035 $a(DE-B1597)526503 035 $a(OCoLC)1022790569 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813586083 035 $a(EXLCZ)993840000000330803 100 $a20191221d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Resilient Self $eGender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans /$fChien-Juh Gu 210 1$aNew Brunswick, NJ :$cRutgers University Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (198 pages) $cillustrations, tables 225 0 $aAsian American Studies Today 311 $a0-8135-8606-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$t1. Introduction --$t2. Immigration, Culture, Gender, and the Self --$t3. Searching for Self in the New Land --$t4. Negotiating Egalitarianism --$t5. Performing Confucian Patriarchy --$t6. Fighting for Dignity and Respect --$t7. Suffering and the Resilient Self --$tAppendix: Demographic Information of Subjects --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aThe Resilient Self explores how international migration re-shapes women's senses of themselves. Chien-Juh Gu uses life-history interviews and ethnographic observations to illustrate how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women, who, in turn, negotiate and resist the social and psychological effects of the processes of immigration and settlement. Most of the women immigrated as dependents when their U.S.-educated husbands found professional jobs upon graduation. Constrained by their dependent visas, these women could not work outside of the home during the initial phase of their settlement. The significant contrast of their lives before and after immigration-changing from successful professionals to foreign housewives-generated feelings of boredom, loneliness, and depression. Mourning their lost careers and lacking fulfillment in homemaking, these highly educated immigrant women were forced to redefine the meaning of work and housework, which in time shaped their perceptions of themselves and others in the family, at work, and in the larger community. 410 0$aAsian American studies today. 606 $aResilience (Personality trait) in women 606 $aSex role$zUnited States 606 $aWomen$zUnited States$xIdentity 606 $aWomen$zTaiwan$xIdentity 606 $aImmigrant women$zUnited States$xSocial conditions 606 $aTaiwanese Americans$xSocial conditions 607 $aTaiwan$xEmigration and immigration$xPsychological aspects 607 $aUnited States$xEmigration and immigration$xPsychological aspects 610 $aTaiwan. 610 $aTaiwanese American. 610 $aTaiwanese. 610 $aethnicity. 610 $aimmigrant. 610 $aimmigration. 610 $asettlement. 610 $asocial justice. 610 $avisa. 615 0$aResilience (Personality trait) in women. 615 0$aSex role 615 0$aWomen$xIdentity. 615 0$aWomen$xIdentity. 615 0$aImmigrant women$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aTaiwanese Americans$xSocial conditions. 676 $a305.40951249 700 $aGu$b Chien-Juh$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut.$01524637 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796588103321 996 $aThe Resilient Self$93814114 997 $aUNINA