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Chargement... Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Franciscopar Judy Yung
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I've read about half of this book a few years back and enjoyed it but ran out of time before the test and just never got back to it. Of what I did read, it was great. Some parts are a bit slow and dry but the plethora of information pertaining to women's history in the US, particularly Asian American women's history is amazing. It's all truth as best as could be recalled and retold. A definite read for any women's studies major, feminist, or activist, or anyone just wanting to expand their horizons. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
The crippling custom of footbinding is the thematic touchstone for Judy Yung's engrossing study of Chinese American women during the first half of the twentieth century. Using this symbol of subjugation to examine social change in the lives of these women, she shows the stages of "unbinding" that occurred in the decades between the turn of the century and the end of World War II. The setting for this captivating history is San Francisco, which had the largest Chinese population in the United States. Yung, a second-generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco, uses an impressive range of sources to tell her story. Oral history interviews, previously unknown autobiographies, both English- and Chinese-language newspapers, government census records, and exceptional photographs from public archives and private collections combine to make this a richly human document as well as an illuminating treatise on race, gender, and class dynamics. While presenting larger social trends Yung highlights the many individual experiences of Chinese American women, and her skill as an oral history interviewer gives this work an immediacy that is poignant and effective. Her analysis of intraethnic class rifts--a major gap in ethnic history--sheds important light on the difficulties that Chinese American women faced in their own communities. Yung provides a more accurate view of their lives than has existed before, revealing the many ways that these women--rather than being passive victims of oppression--were active agents in the making of their own history. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Judy Yung is both an accomplished historian and a daughter of the Chinese American community in San Francisco. Drawing on both these identities, she has written an important book. Having been born in the city to a working-class family in the 1930s, she understands the various clusters within the community. In her introduction and epilogue, she places family members—and herself—in the larger story which she tells. She also makes extensive use of oral histories, some of which she conducted and others from earlier collections. For each time period, she focuses on a few women placed differently within the community and tells enough of about each to bring them to life and personalize her generalizations.
In addition, Yung is unusually well versed in US women’s history, immigration history and ethnic history, enabling her to make insightful comparisons between Chinese American women and women of African-American, Jewish American, and Mexican American communities.
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