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1 online resource (xviii, 259 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-249) and index. |
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Introduction -- Contradictions of gender when women immigrate first -- Work: nursing, women's networks, and men 'tied to a stake' -- Home: redoing gender in immigrant households -- Community: creating Little Kerala and the paradox of 'men who play' in the church -- Transnational connections: the Janus-faced production of an immigrant community -- Conclusions. |
| Summary |
With a subtle yet penetrating understanding of the intricate interplay of gender, race, and class, Sheba George examines an unusual immigration pattern to analyze what happens when women who migrate before men become the breadwinners in the family. Focusing on a group of female nurses who moved from India to the United States before their husbands, she shows that this story of economic mobility and professional achievement conceals underlying conditions of upheaval not only in the families and immigrant community but also in the sending community in India. This richly textured and impeccably r. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Women. |
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United States. |
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Social conditions. |
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East Indians -- United States -- Social conditions.
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East Indians. |
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Women immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Women immigrants. |
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Women -- Employment -- United States.
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Women -- Employment. |
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East Indians -- Employment -- United States.
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East Indians -- Employment. |
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Women immigrants -- Employment -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Nurses -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Sex role -- United States.
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Social aspects. |
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Man-woman relationships -- United States.
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Nurses. |
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Man-woman relationships -- India.
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India. |
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Transnationalism.
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Sex role. |
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Man-woman relationships. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. |
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Transnationalism. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies. |
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East Indian American women -- Employment. |
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East Indian American women -- Social conditions. |
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East Indians -- Social conditions. |
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Nurses -- Social conditions. |
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Women immigrants -- Social conditions. |
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Women -- Social conditions. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Gender roles. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: When women come first Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005. 0520243188 (cloth : acid-free paper) (DLC) 2004020977 |
| ISBN |
9780520938359 ebook |
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0520938356 |
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0520243188 cloth acid-free paper |
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0520243196 paperback acid-free paper |
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9780520243187 |
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9780520243194 |
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159875548X |
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9781598755480 |
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1282357972 |
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9781282357976 |
