The “Good-Girl” Value Construct: Asian Indian Immigrant Women in the U.S. and Contested Spaces
The multiple constructions of identity that define an Indian woman - as a wife, a mother, a Goddess - and the thread that holds these identities together, the “good-girl” are explored in this paper. Fox’s (1977) argument of the use of “nice-girl” or “good-girl” as value constructs for the social con...
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| Language: | English |
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Hipatia Press
2012-06-01
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| Series: | Géneros: Multidisciplinary Journal of Gender Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://hipatiapress.com/hpjournals/index.php/generos/article/view/117 |