{"product_id":"the-resilient-self-gender-immigration-and-taiwanese-americans-paperback-softback-9780813586052","title":"The Resilient Self; Gender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813586052","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Resilient Self\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGender, Immigration, and Taiwanese Americans\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChien-Juh Gu (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813586052\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 January 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages, 4 black and white photographs, 1 table\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.254 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Resilient Self \u003c\/i\u003eexamines how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women. Gu's fresh perspective positions these women as social agents and producers of knowledge, not simply as recipients of social forces.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Eliza Noh (California State University, Fullerton) \u003cdiv\u003e\"An interesting, clearly written book that articulates how sociocultural factors shape women's individual voices, self development, and lived experiences. It adds novel information and hidden knowledge about this particular group of migrants from Taiwan.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Esther Ngan-ling Chow (editor of Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia) \u003cdiv\u003e\"A study of middle-class, educated Taiwanese women and their efforts to redefine their lives after immigration as dependent spouses initially unable, by the terms of their visas, to work outside the home.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Chronicle of Higher Education) \u003cdiv\u003e\"[The book] empathize[s] with these women's experiences and to celebrate their adaptation to and acceptance of their new lives and circumstances. Readers seeking these kinds of narratives and microstudy data will be the best served by \u003ci\u003eThe Resilient Self\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of Asian Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Resilient Self\u003c\/i\u003e contains many fascinating vignettes about the experiences of Taiwanese immigrant women in the United States. It also highlights the effect immigration can have on the mental health of women..Its theoretical framing…holds promise for future work in migration studies.” \u003c\/div\u003e (Gender \u0026amp; Society) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Resilient Self \u003c\/i\u003eexamines how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women. Gu's fresh perspective positions these women as social agents and producers of knowledge, not simply as recipients of social forces.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Eliza Noh (California State University, Fullerton) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Resilient Self \u003c\/i\u003eexamines how immigration creates gendered work and family contexts for middle-class Taiwanese American women. Gu's fresh perspective positions these women as social agents and producers of knowledge, not simply as recipients of social forces.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Eliza Noh (California State University, Fullerton) \u003cdiv\u003e\"An interesting, clearly written book that articulates how sociocultural factors shape women's individual voices, self development, and lived experiences. It adds novel information and hidden knowledge about this particular group of migrants from Taiwan.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Esther Ngan-ling Chow (editor of Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia) \u003cdiv\u003e\"An interesting, clearly written book that articulates how sociocultural factors shape women's individual voices, self development, and lived experiences. It adds novel information and hidden knowledge about this particular group of migrants from Taiwan.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Esther Ngan-ling Chow (editor of Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia) \u003cdiv\u003e\"A study of middle-class, educated Taiwanese women and their efforts to redefine their lives after immigration as dependent spouses initially unable, by the terms of their visas, to work outside the home.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Chronicle of Higher Education) \u003cdiv\u003e\"A study of middle-class, educated Taiwanese women and their efforts to redefine their lives after immigration as dependent spouses initially unable, by the terms of their visas, to work outside the home.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Chronicle of Higher Education) \u003cdiv\u003e\"[The book] empathize[s] with these women's experiences and to celebrate their adaptation to and acceptance of their new lives and circumstances. Readers seeking these kinds of narratives and microstudy data will be the best served by \u003ci\u003eThe Resilient Self\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of Asian Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e\"[The book] empathize[s] with these women's experiences and to celebrate their adaptation to and acceptance of their new lives and circumstances. Readers seeking these kinds of narratives and microstudy data will be the best served by \u003ci\u003eThe Resilient Self\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of Asian Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Resilient Self\u003c\/i\u003e contains many fascinating vignettes about the experiences of Taiwanese immigrant women in the United States. It also highlights the effect immigration can have on the mental health of women..Its theoretical framing…holds promise for future work in migration studies.” \u003c\/div\u003e (Gender \u0026amp; Society) \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Resilient Self\u003c\/i\u003e contains many fascinating vignettes about the experiences of Taiwanese immigrant women in the United States. It also highlights the effect immigration can have on the mental health of women..Its theoretical framing…holds promise for future work in migration studies.” \u003c\/div\u003e (Gender \u0026amp; Society)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Resilient Self\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e 1. Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 2. Immigration, Culture, Gender, and the Self 17\u003cbr\u003e 3. Searching for Self in the New Land 38\u003cbr\u003e 4. Negotiating Egalitarianism 69\u003cbr\u003e 5. Performing Confucian Patriarchy 95\u003cbr\u003e 6. Fighting for Dignity and Respect in Racialized America 127\u003cbr\u003e 7. Suffering and the Resilient Self 154\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 165\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Demographic Information of Subjects 167\u003cbr\u003e Notes 171\u003cbr\u003e References 181\u003cbr\u003e Index 191 \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563704086808,"sku":"9780813586052","price":22.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-resilient-self-gender-immigration-and-taiwanese-americans-paperback-softback-9780813586052","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}