1st Edition

Women Crossing Boundaries A Psychology of Immigration and Transformations of Sexuality

By Oliva Espin Copyright 1999
    208 Pages
    by Routledge

    208 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 1999. This book looks at the consequences of border crossings and immigration on women and their culture and sexual orientations. Espin demonstrates how deeply sexuality, language and gender affected by this large life change with the aid of 43 biographies of adolescent and adult women.

    Introduction; Chapter 1 Women’s Experience of Migration; Chapter 2 Collecting Immigrant Women’s Life Narratives; Chapter 3 The Stories; Chapter 4 Migration, Sexuality, and the Preservation of Culture and Tradition; Chapter 5 Language; Chapter 6 Mothers, Daughters, and Migration; Chapter 7 The Experience of Lesbian Immigrants; Chapter 8 Final Thoughts;

    Biography

    Oliva M. Espin is Professor of Women's Studies at San Diego State University. She is the author of Latina Healers: Power, Tradition and Culture (1996) and has written widely about the psychology of women from different cultures and about women's experiences as immigrants and refugees.