Wife or Worker?
Download or Read eBook Wife or Worker? PDF written by Nicola Piper and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Nicola Piper |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2004-09-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780585463810 |
ISBN-13 | : 0585463816 |
Rating | : 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Wife or Worker? by : Nicola Piper
Book excerpt: This volume challenges the dominant discourse that perceives Asian women as either "mail-order" brides or overseas workers. Providing the first sustained critique of the artificial analytical division between brides and workers, the book demonstrates women's transition from brides to workers and from workers to brides. Focusing on how women workers use marriage as a strategy to gain citizenship and how migrants for marriage become workers, the authors present these modern Asian women in their multidimensional roles as wives, workers, mothers, and citizens.