Women Crossing Boundaries: A Psychology of Immigration and Transformations of Sexuality

Women Crossing Boundaries: A Psychology of Immigration and Transformations of Sexuality

by Oliva Espin
Women Crossing Boundaries: A Psychology of Immigration and Transformations of Sexuality

Women Crossing Boundaries: A Psychology of Immigration and Transformations of Sexuality

by Oliva Espin

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781135963842
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 08/21/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 208
File size: 720 KB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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;
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