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  1. Women's issues in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Greenhaven Press, Detroit [u.a.]

    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. more

    Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg
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    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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  2. Women's issues in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Greenhaven Press, Detroit, Mich. [u.a.]

    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
    a ang 957 tan 9/803
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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    2009 A 407
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    Universität Konstanz, Kommunikations-, Informations-, Medienzentrum (KIM)
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    Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Medien- und Informationszentrum, Universitätsbibliothek
    Lit 2120.Tan 7
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    Brechtbau-Bibliothek
    PP 695.800
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0737738987; 0737739029; 9780737738988; 9780737739022
    RVK Categories: HU 8839
    Series: Social issues in literature
    Subjects: Women in literature; Mothers and daughters in literature; Women in literature; Mothers and daughters in literature
    Other subjects: Tan, Amy: Joy Luck Club; Tan, Amy
    Scope: 191 S., Ill, 24 cm
    Notes:

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

    Amy Ling: Introduction ; Chronology ; ch. 1. Background on Amy Tan ; 1. The life of Amy Tan/ Laurie Champion ; 2. Tan turns autobiography into powerful fiction

    Amy Tan: 3. The Joy Luck Club is not strictly autobiographical

    Walter Shear: ch. 2. The Joy Luck Club and women's issues ; 1. Tan's young women must rediscover their Chinese identity

    Zenobia Mistri: 2. June's symbolic journey to discover her ethnic identity

    Wendy Ho: 3. Damaged by their mothers' high expectations

    Gloria Shen: 4. Storytelling reconciles mothers and daughters

    Helena Grice: 5. The maternal line of descent dominates The Joy Luck Club

    Bonnie Braendlin: 6. Mother/daughter relationships in the post women's liberation era

    Patricia P. Chu: 7. Female empowerment in The Joy Luck Club

    Catherine Romagnolo: 8. Tan's beginning rejects stereotypes about immigrant women

    Leslie Bow: 9. Empowerment through woman-to-woman bonding

    Yuan Shu: 10. Asian American gender stereotypes in The Joy Luck Club

    Jean Lau Chin: 11. Tan portrays strong Asian women

    Paula Caplan: ch. 3. Contemporary perspectives on women's issues ; 1. Mothers are society's scapegoats

    Nikki A. Toyama: 2. Asian American women must overcome limiting cultural stereotypes

    Beverly Yuen Thompson: 3. Bioculturalism leads to one woman's acceptance of bisexuality

    Iris Chang: 4. Asian women are still not completely accepted in the United States

    International Labour Organization (ILO): 5. More women are working, but job equality remains elusive

    Eleanor Holmes Norton: 6. Feminism is not dead, just evolving