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Article: Jan Ryan, Chinese Women and the Global Village: An Australian Site (Book Review)
- Article from:
- Journal of Australian Studies
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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Jan Ryan, Chinese Women and the Global Village, University of Queensland Press and API Network, 2003, pp 210, pb $30.00, ISBN 0702234214.
Chinese Women and the Global Village is a detailed analysis of the impact that the diverse migratory experiences of Chinese women in Australia has on their everyday life practices, from the private sphere of the family to the public workplace. Jan Ryan's analysis of these elements is informed by an overt theoretical interest in the construction of identity, particularly the influence of ethnicity and gender on the identities that the women prescribe for themselves and those that are ascribed to them by others. Ryan explores how ...