Full Description
Women of the Diaspora: Generational Transformations offers fresh insights into the experiences of women who migrated in the aftermath of World War Two.
The contributors examine migration not just as a geographical shift but as a deeply economic, psychological, and intercultural journey—one that profoundly reshaped women's identities and understandings of ethnicity. The volume also explores the lives of the next generation—daughters of diasporic migrants—whose experiences are shaped by a constant negotiation between the cultural traditions of their parents and the values of their new homelands.
Contents
Chapter 1: Women of the Diaspora: Generational Transformations by Jane Southcott
Chapter 2: Intergenerational Trauma, Learnings and Resilience: Vietnamese Women in Australia by Nathalie Huyhn Chao Nguyen
Chapter 3: "Diasporic Women and Cultural Enclaves": An Acculturation Lens on Inhabiting and Traversing Diverse Sites by Reshmi Lahiri-Roy and Nicola Sum
Chapter 4: Immigrant Mother, Writer Daughter: Disparate Stories Entwined by Lena Pasqua
Chapter 5: Autoethnography of a Tattoo: The Impact of Migration on a Sicilian Female Left Behind by Angela Princiotto
Chapter 6: A Gold Bracelet: Links of Liberation by Maria Gindidis
Chapter 7: I Am and I Am Not My Mother by Rose Wake
Chapter 8: Storying Distance: Lived Experiences of Post War Second Generation Italian Australian Middle-Aged Women by Teresa Capetola
Chapter 9: Ascolta! Intergenerational Stories of Challenges and Resilience by Teresa Capetola, Luci Callipari Marcuzzo, Fortunata Callipari, Annamaria Paolino, Katrina Lolicato, Jemana Stellato Pledger, and Maria Pallotta Chiarolli
Chapter 10: Backyard Reckonings: Colonizer/Colonized Crossings and Reckonings in an Italian-Australian Women's Backyard by Maria Pallotti-Chiarolli
Chapter 11: African Women's Constructions of Feminisms in the Diaspora: An Ethnographic Study of Identity Negotiation across Cultures by Gloria Pindi Nziba
Chapter 12: Conclusions and Provocations by Rose Wake and Jane Southcott
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors
