Shame and Recovery
Subtitle: Mapping Identity in an Asian Women's Shelter (Critical Intercultural Communication Studies, Volume 2)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780820456508
Subjects: Abuse - General; Communication; Journalism; Women's Studies - General; Social Science; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; Abuse of; Abused women; Asian American women; United States; Women immigrants; Sociology
Description: "Shame and Recovery is a critical ethnography, using postcolonial and poststructuralist perspectives - in particular, of communication and cultural identity construction in a shelter for Asian women in Chicago. The cultural codes, values, and symbols of honor and shame illuminate the ways in which Asian women experiencing marital abuse and violence construct their identities. This ethnography also examines the process of recovery through the reconstruction of identity in the shelter.

Shame and Recovery reflects on the politics and practices of religious faith as a paradoxical site of cultural control and transformation."--BOOK JACKET.