Asian Women's Ethnic Identity: The Impact of Gender and Context in the Accounts of Women Bringing Up Children in East London
| Autor: | Harriette Marshall, Neelam Dosanjh, Anne Woollett, Paula Nicolson |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
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Child care
Child rearing Cultural identity 05 social sciences Ethnic group 050109 social psychology Context (language use) Gender studies 0506 political science Gender Studies Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Homogeneous 050602 political science & public administration East london Childbirth 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sociology General Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Feminism & Psychology. 4:119-132 |
| ISSN: | 1461-7161 0959-3535 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0959353594041007 |
| Popis: | This study examines the ways in which a group of women of Asian origin or descent define and discuss aspects of ethnicity and ethnic identity. Thirty-two Asian women of different religious and cultural backgrounds who were bringing up young children in East London were interviewed by an Asian psychologist. As part of a more extensive interview about childbirth, child care and child rearing, women were asked about their ethnic identity. Their accounts indicate that their constructions of ethnicity and ethnic identity are fluid and changing, taking account of gender, developmental changes associated with motherhood and the context of their lives as mothers of young children. Analysis of their accounts is used to argue that ethnicity and ethnic identity are not homogeneous categories, that they operate across gender and, therefore, greater consideration needs to be given in developmental psychology to the complexity and variations in women's representations of ethnicity. |
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