Intersectional Lives: Chinese Australian Women in White Australia

Intersectional Lives explores the experiences of Chinese Australian females during the White Australia Policy era, highlighting their diverse identities and subject positions as migrants, mothers, daughters, wives, students, workers, entrepreneurs, and cultural custodians. It offers a revision of patriarchal understandings of Chinese Australian history and broader understandings of overseas Chinese migrations and settlement experiences.

Format: Hardback
Length: 204 pages
Publication date: 26 April 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Intersectional Lives delves into the diverse experiences of Chinese Australian females across time and place during the White Australia Policy era (1901-1973). Through a combination of personal reflections and postcolonial feminist readings of official records, the book explores how these women's everyday lives were shaped by multiple and fluid identities and subject positions, including migrant, mother, daughter, wife, student, worker, entrepreneur, and cultural custodian. By examining these intersections, the book offers fresh perspectives on Chinese females in the diaspora as gendered, classed, culturally diverse, and racialized individuals with varying forms of oppression, agency, and mobility. It challenges patriarchal understandings of Chinese Australian history and provides a broader understanding of overseas Chinese migrations and settlement experiences. Moreover, the book demonstrates how historical geography, informed by postcolonial feminist approaches, can facilitate more nuanced understandings of past (and present) times and places that encompass the diverse experiences of women at the domestic, local, national, and international scales.

This book will appeal to social and cultural geographers, as well as audiences interested in history, historical geography, ethnic and racial studies, gender studies, diaspora studies, migration studies, and gender and feminist studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367674298