When women come first
Subtitle: gender and class in transnational migration
By: Sheba Mariam George.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Women, East Indian -- United States -- Social conditions.; Women immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.; Women, East Indian -- Employment -- United States.; Women immigrants -- Employment -- Social aspects -- United States.; Nurses -- United States -- Social conditions.; East Indians -- United States -- Social conditions.; Sex role -- United States.; Man-woman relationships -- United States.; Man-woman relationships -- India.; Transnationalism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-249) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Contradictions of gender when women immigrate first; title: Work: nursing, women's networks, and men 'tied to a stake'; title: Home: redoing gender in immigrant households; title: Community: creating Little Kerala and the paradox of 'men who play' in the church; title: Transnational connections: the Janus-faced production of an immigrant community; title: Conclusions.