TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wiener,Gary
TI  - Women's issues in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
T2  - Social issues in literature
SN  - 9780737738988 (hardcover)
AV  - PS3570 .A48 Z94 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Detroit
PB  - Greenhaven Press
KW  - Tan, Amy.
KW  - Mothers and daughters in literature
KW  - Chinese Americans in literature
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -