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
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.