SOCIOL 2U06 Lecture 18: 18 - Gender and Families
30 Mar 2016
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Chapter 9 we don"t sleep around like white girls do : family, culture, and gender in. 100 interviews with first and second generation filipino immigrants to the us who had settled in the san diego area. Explores gender, sexuality, and family relations within a broader context of immigrant status and the status of a racialized, colonized, and subordinated group. Visible minorities are viewed as foreigners even if they have lived in the us or canada for generations. Strategies to maintain a sense of cultural superiority over white american society. In the following narratives, americans are characterized as lacking in strong family ties and collective identity, less willing to do the work of family and cultural maintenance, and less willing to abide by patriarchal norms in husband/wife relations . Filipina women were upheld as sexually virtuous whereas american women were constructed as sexually immoral.
