| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 196 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Background -- The South Asian Context: Situating Identities -- Construction of the South Asian Woman -- The Historical Construction of the South Asian Woman -- Partition and the Experiences of Women and Girls -- Women's Arrival to the UK -- Memories, Global Ageing and the Creation of Diasporic Knowledge -- Outline of the Chapters -- Chapter 2-Introduction -- Chapter 3-Meet the Women -- Chapter 4-Childhood (Bachpan): Nostalgia and Memories of Home -- Chapter 5-Youth: The Short Period of Jawaani |
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Chapter 6-Marriage and Migration: Obligations, Love and Loneliness -- Chapter 7-Motherhood: More to Say and Making Mistakes -- Chapter 8-Later Life: "Kal Dia Galla (Yesterday's Conversations)" and Lessons Learnt -- Chapter 9-The End of Life: Acceptance and Religious Reflections -- Chapter 10-Memoir -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Introduction -- Demographics of Age and Migration -- Age(ing) and the Life Course -- Intersectionality -- Intersectionality: A Theoretical Framework. -- Intersectionality, Feminism and Feminist Positions -- Black Feminism -- Transnational Feminism |
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Feminist Social Gerontology -- Life Course Approach and Recalled Memories -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Meet the Women -- Short Portraits -- Research Methods -- Sample -- Location -- Consent and Language -- Cultural Ethics -- Researcher Izzat (Honour, Respect) -- Insider/Outsider Positions: "Apni Kuri" (Our Girl) -- Sensitivity -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Childhood (Bachpan): Nostalgia and Memories of Home -- Memory, Nostalgia and Making Meaning -- Nostalgia -- Nostalgia, Family and Household -- Initial Markers of Gender and Age -- Class and Gendered Roles |
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Family and the Household as the Site of Belonging -- Hierarchies of Age: Establishing Sociocultural Scripts -- Izzat and Building Cultural Capital -- Memory -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Youth: The Short Period of Jawaani -- Jawaani (Youth) -- The Daughter: Public and Private Spaces -- Purdah (Curtain, Segregation) -- Purdah, Izzat as Honour and Gendered Spaces -- Patriarchal Negotiations -- Religion -- A Temporary Home -- Gender and Education -- Disrupting Education: Gender and Sacrifice -- Gender, Authority, Culture and Religion -- Conclusion -- References |
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Chapter 6: Marriage and Migration: Obligations, Love and Loneliness -- (Early) Marriage Experiences -- Family -- Becoming a Wife, In-Laws and a 'Good' Husband -- Marrying for 'Love' -- Migration: Navigating Home, Loneliness and Friendships -- Fear and (Re)Creating Networks -- Constructing the Apna (Ours): Identity and Race -- New Opportunities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Motherhood: More to Say and Making Mistakes -- Motherhood and the Mother's Role -- Changing Roles: "I Didn't Know Anything About Anything" -- Mothering and Loss -- Becoming and Being Mothers: Everyday Mothering |
| Summary |
Drawing on empirical research with older South Asian migrant women, this book puts forth new understandings on how older, settled, migrant women construct and understand age through recollections of key life course events that are structured around gendered positions. Divesting from a Western-centric view and presenting a decolonial and Black feminist lens to ageing, the author presents intersectionality and transnational positionality as useful tools to connect old age, migration and memory in critical studies on aging. Chapters flesh out life course memories at different key stages and examines how the intersections of multiple markers of identity (race, gender, language, immigration status, age, etc.) shape how older South Asian migrant women understand and experience their lives. This book will be of interest to scholars with a focus on Gender Studies, Migration Studies, Ageing Studies, and Mobility Studies |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Women immigrants -- Great Britain
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Older immigrants -- Great Britain
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Older women -- Great Britain
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Older South Asians -- Great Britain
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Aging -- Great Britain
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Women -- Identity.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031504624 |
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3031504623 |
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