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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"expatriate women"”.
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Japanese Expatriate Women in the United States
… focuses on gradually increasing Japanese expatriate women’s experiences in the United States. Using structuration theory (Giddens, 1984) and doing gender (West & Zimmerman, 1987), gender practices and (re)production of gendered structure at Japanese organizations in the United States are …
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Skylines and hemlines : a visual exploration of expatriate women’s negotiation and definition of appropriate dress in the changing cityscape of Doha
… negotiation of appropriate dress for eighteen expatriate women who currently live in Qatar’s capital Doha. Rapid shifts to the physical and cultural landscape are a product of Doha’s re-imagining of itself as a global city. New sites of interaction between locals and expats lead to collisions …
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Finding oneself far from home: identity construction in contemporary US migrant women’s fiction
This thesis discusses US immigrant women’s narratives in terms of identity construction, adaptation to the host environment, and the resulting effects on the characters’ sense of home and belonging. The thesis also compares women’s immigrant narratives with expatriate fictions focusing on the …