Asian American Women and Men: Labor, Laws, and LoveLabor, laws, and love. Espiritu explores how racist and gendered labor conditions and immigration laws have affected relations between and among Asian American women and men. |
Contents
LABOR LAWSAND LOVE | 1 |
Theorizing Race Gender and Class | 4 |
Their Material and Cultural Lives | 8 |
Goals Scope and Methodology | 15 |
STRETCHING GENDER FAMILY AND COMMUNITY BOUNDARIES I840sI930s | 19 |
Labor Recruitment Exclusion Laws and the Shortage of Women | 20 |
Stretching the Boundaries of Family | 25 |
Work and Changing Gender Relations | 34 |
Gender Relations Among Salaried Professionals | 78 |
Gender Relations Among SelfEmployed Entrepreneurs | 82 |
Gender Relations Among Wage Laborers | 87 |
Conclusion | 94 |
IDEOLOGICAL RACISM AND CULTURAL RESISTANCE CONSTRUCTING OUR OWN IMAGES | 97 |
Yellow Peril Charlie Chan and Suzie Wong | 99 |
Reconstructing Our Own Images | 111 |
Controlling Images Gender and Cultural Nationalism | 117 |
Conclusion | 47 |
CHANGING LIVES WORLD WAR II AND THE POSTWAR YEARS | 49 |
The Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans | 50 |
Chinese Korean Filipino and Indian Americans | 57 |
The Emerging Middle Class | 60 |
The Separated Wives War Brides and Refugees | 63 |
Conclusion | 69 |
CONTEMPORARY ASIAN AMERICA IMMIGRATION INCREASING DIVERSITY AND CHANGING RESOURCES | 71 |
Immigration Laws Labor Needs and Changing Gender Composition | 73 |
Economic Diversity Among Contemporary Asian Immigrants | 74 |
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