A patchwork shawl : chronicles of South Asian women in America

著者

    • Dasgupta, Shamita Das

書誌事項

A patchwork shawl : chronicles of South Asian women in America

edited by Shamita Das Dasgupta

Rutgers University Press, c1998

  • : pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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巻冊次

: pbk. ISBN 9780813525174

内容説明

Focusing on the lives of immigrants to the USA from all over South Asia, this collection of essays challenges stereotypes by allowing women to speak in their own words. This provides insight into the reconstruction of immigrant patriarchy in the USA and the development of female resistence to this.
巻冊次

ISBN 9780813525181

内容説明

A Patchwork Shawl sheds light on the lives of a segment of the U.S. immigrant population that has long been relegated to the margins. It focuses on women's lives that span different worlds: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and the United States. This collection of essays by and about South Asian women in America challenges stereotypes by allowing women to speak in their own words. Together they provide discerning insights into the reconstruction of immigrant patriarchy in a new world, and the development of women's resistance to that reconstruction. Shamita Das DasGupta's introduction also acquaints readers with the psychological topography of the South Asian community. A Patchwork Shawl considers topics from re-negotiation of identity to sexuality, violence to intimacy, occupations to organizing within the community. The essays bear witness to women's negotiations for independent identities, their claim to their own bodies, and the right to choose relationships based on their own histories and truths. They bring new understanding to the intersection of gender, ethnicity, race, sexuality, and class.

目次

Preface Introduction SHAMITA DAS DASGUPTA Who Am I? Re-Questing Identity - The Language of Identity GRACE POORE Being "Amreekan": Fried Chicken versus Chicken Tikka NAHEED HASNAT "We Are Graceful Swans Who Can Also Be Crows": Hybrid Identities of Pakistani Muslim Women LUBNA CHAUDHRY Sexual Exiles SURINA KHAN Naming Desire, Shaping Identity: Tracing the Experiences of Indian Lesbians in the United States NAHEED ISLAM Me and We: Family and Community - Mothers and Daughters in Indian-American Families: A Failed Communication? MANISHA ROY Sex, Lies, and Women's Lives: An Intergenerational Dialogue SAYANTANI DASGUPTA, SHAMITA DAS DASGUPTA Marital Rape: Some Ethical and Cultural Considerations RINITA MAZUMDAR Lifting the Veil of Secrecy: Domestic Violence Against South Asian Women in the United States SATYA P. KRISHNAN, MALAHAT BAIG-AMIN, LOUISA GILBERT, NABILA EL-BASSEL, ANNE WATERS Nation and Immigration: Rethinking the "Model Minority" - The Habit of Ex-Nomination: Nation, Woman, and the Indian Immigrant Bourgeoisie ANANNYA BHATTACHARJEE "Underneath My Blouse Beats My Indian Heart": Sexuality, Nationalism, and Indian Womanhood in the United States SUNITA SUNDER MUKHI Three Hot Meals and a Full Day at Work: South Asian Women's Labor in the United States SONIA SHAH About the Contributors Index

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