SOCIOL 2U06 Lecture 26: Gender and Families
20 Apr 2016
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Chapter 9, fox, yen le espiritu we don"t sleep around like white girls do : family, culture, and. 100 interviews with first and second generation filipino immigrants to the us who had settled in the. 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. Filipino families viewed as close-knit and dedicated. 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.
