Asian American women and men : labor, laws, and love
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Bibliographic Information
Asian American women and men : labor, laws, and love
(Gender lens, v. 1)
Sage Publications, c1997
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 20 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 120-135) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This groundbreaking volume is among the first to explore the Asian-American experience from a gendered perspective. Yen Le Espiritu documents how the historical and contemporary oppression of Asian-Americans has structured gender relationships among them, and has contributed to the creation of social institutions and systems of meaning.
Table of Contents
Labor, Laws, and Love
Stretching Gender, Family, and Community Boundaries, 1840s-1930s
Changing Lives
World War II and the Postwar Years
Contemporary Asian America
Immigration, Increasing Diversity, and Changing Resources
Ideological Racism and Cultural Resistance
Constructing Our Own Images
Beyond Dualisms
Constructing an Imagined Community
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