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Women's issues in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club / Gary Wiener, book editor.

Contributor(s): Series: Social issues in literaturePublication details: Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.Description: 191 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780737738988 (hardcover)
  • 9780737739022 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS3570 .A48 Z94 2008
Contents:
The life of Amy Tan / Laurie Champion -- Tan turns autobiography into powerful fiction / Amy Ling -- The joy luck club is not strictly autobiographical / Amy Tan -- Tan's young women must rediscover their Chinese identity / Walter Shear -- June's symbolic journey to discover her ethnic identity / Zenobia Mistri -- Damaged by their mothers' high expectations / Wendy Ho -- Storytelling reconciles mothers and daughters / Gloria Shen -- The maternal line of descent dominates The joy luck club / Helena Grice -- Mother / daughter relationships in the post women's liberation era / Bonnie Braendlin -- Female empowerment in The joy luck club / Patricia P. Chu -- Tan's beginning rejects stereotypes about immigrant women / Catherine Romagnolo -- Empowerment through woman-to-woman bonding / Leslie Bow -- Asian American gender stereotypes in The joy luck club / Yuan Shu -- Tan portrays strong Asian women / Jean Lau Chin -- Mothers are society's scapegoats / Paula Caplan -- Asian American women must overcome limiting cultural stereotypes / Nikki A. Toyama -- Biculturalism leads to one woman's acceptance of bisexuality / Beverly Yuen Thompson -- Asian women are still not completely accepted in the United States / Iris Chang -- More women are working, but job equality remains elusive / International Labour Organization ILO) -- Feminism is not dead, just evolving / Eleanore Holmes Norton.
Summary: Presents essays that examine women's issues in "The Joy Luck Club," discussing such topics as gender and ethnic identity, female empowerment, cultural conflict, and stereotypes about immigrant women.
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks PS3570 .A48 Z94 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001006138

Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-187) and index.

The life of Amy Tan / Laurie Champion -- Tan turns autobiography into powerful fiction / Amy Ling -- The joy luck club is not strictly autobiographical / Amy Tan -- Tan's young women must rediscover their Chinese identity / Walter Shear -- June's symbolic journey to discover her ethnic identity / Zenobia Mistri -- Damaged by their mothers' high expectations / Wendy Ho -- Storytelling reconciles mothers and daughters / Gloria Shen -- The maternal line of descent dominates The joy luck club / Helena Grice -- Mother / daughter relationships in the post women's liberation era / Bonnie Braendlin -- Female empowerment in The joy luck club / Patricia P. Chu -- Tan's beginning rejects stereotypes about immigrant women / Catherine Romagnolo -- Empowerment through woman-to-woman bonding / Leslie Bow -- Asian American gender stereotypes in The joy luck club / Yuan Shu -- Tan portrays strong Asian women / Jean Lau Chin -- Mothers are society's scapegoats / Paula Caplan -- Asian American women must overcome limiting cultural stereotypes / Nikki A. Toyama -- Biculturalism leads to one woman's acceptance of bisexuality / Beverly Yuen Thompson -- Asian women are still not completely accepted in the United States / Iris Chang -- More women are working, but job equality remains elusive / International Labour Organization ILO) -- Feminism is not dead, just evolving / Eleanore Holmes Norton.

Presents essays that examine women's issues in "The Joy Luck Club," discussing such topics as gender and ethnic identity, female empowerment, cultural conflict, and stereotypes about immigrant women.

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