Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-187) and index.
Contents:
The life of Amy Tan / Laurie Champion -- Tan turns autobiography into powerful fiction / Amy Ling -- The joy luck club is not strictly autobiographical / Amy Tan -- Tan's young women must rediscover their Chinese identity / Walter Shear -- June's symbolic journeyto discover her ethnic identity / Zenobia Mistri -- Damaged by theirmothers' high expectations / Wendy Ho -- Storytelling reconciles mothers and daughters / Gloria Shen -- The maternal line of descent dominatesThe joy luck club / Helena Grice -- Mother / daughter relationships in the post women's liberation era / Bonnie Braendlin -- Female empowermentin The joy luck club / Patricia P. Chu -- Tan's beginning rejects stereotypes about immigrant women / Catherine Romagnolo -- Empowerment through woman-to-woman bonding / Leslie Bow -- Asian American gender stereotypes in The joy luck club / Yuan Shu -- Tan portrays strong Asian women / Jean Lau Chin -- Mothers are society's scapegoats / Paula Caplan -- Asian American women must overcome limiting cultural stereotypes / Nikki A. Toyama -- Biculturalism leads to one woman's acceptance of bisexuality / Beverly Yuen Thompson -- Asian women are still not completely accepted in the United States / Iris Chang -- More women are working, but job equality remains elusive / International Labour Organization ILO) -- Feminism is not dead, just evolving / Eleanore Holmes Norton.
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