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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Situating Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork -- 2 Understanding the Gender System in Rural Turkey: Fieldwork Dilemmas of Conformity and Intervention -- 3 Skinfolk, Not Kinfolk: Comparative Reflections on the Identity of Participant-Observation in Two Field Situations -- 4 Writing Ethnography: Feminist Critical Practice -- 5 Relationality and Ethnographic Subjectivity: Key Informants and the Construction of Personhood in Fieldwork -- 6 Between Bosses and Workers: The Dilemma of a Keen Observer and a Vocal Feminist -- 7 Feminist Insider Dilemmas: Constructing Ethnic Identity with Chicana Informants -- 8 Reflections on Oral History: Research in a Japanese American Community -- 9 The Expeditions of Conjurers: Ethnography, Power, and Pretense -- 10 Situating Locations: The Politics of Self, Identity, and "Other" in Living and Writing the Text -- 11 Afterword: Musings from an Old Gray Wolf -- About the Book -- About the Contributors

Unpeeling what is usually concealed by professional language, this essay explores the interactive relationship between my research, on the one hand, and my personal and family history, on the other. These connections are not simply uni-directional, but dynamic and interactive, evolving over time. Although some of my research questions may have paralleled my personal challenges, the Holocaust survivors I have researched also deeply affected my emotional life and personal trajectory at different times. I briefly discuss my genealogical inheritance coupled with an in-depth focus on my scholarship.

The effects of transnational ties upon the emotional lives of second-generation Filipino Americans are studied. Second-generation Filipino students (N = 22) enrolled at the U of California, Davis, in 1995, were interviewed to determine the influence that family had upon their emotional well-being. Several findings are reported: participants perceived family as the most important part of being Filipino & generally referred to the Philippines as "home"; students experienced significant pressure from their parents to achieve high academic marks; some Filipina participants stated that their parents attempted to restrict their educational achievement in order to preserve control over female students' lives; many students delineated their relations with parents as strained; & several female participants contemplated suicide or developed eating disorders in response to family pressures. It is subsequently asserted that second-generation experience "emotional transnationalism," defined as the influence of transnational relations over immigrant population members' emotional lives. Recommendations for future research are also offered, eg, whether members of diasporic communities are also affected by emotional transnationalism. 50 References. J. W. Parker

In comparative studies of language proficiency and grades, Filipino second generation youth look relatively successful and assimilated, echoing what we know about their parents: post-1965 Filipino immigrants are predominantly middle-class, college-educated, English-speaking professionals who have integrated easily into U.S. society. Based on fieldwork in two California sites, this paper examines some of the issues and problems confronting second generation Filipino youth. "The family" seems to offer an extremely magnetic and positive basis of Filipino identity for many children of immigrants, yet it is also a deep source of stress and alienation, which for some, has led to internal struggles and extreme despair as manifested by rates of depression and suicidal thoughts. More specifically, by focusing on the gap between family ideology and practices, this paper suggests that many Filipino second generation youth struggle with an emotional transnationalism which situates them between different and often conflicting generational and locational points of reference.

ABSTRACTThis article focuses upon the decision‐making process in the household with regard to young women and factory employment in Java and Taiwan, and critically examines to what extent these processes reflect household strategies. While Javanese daughters may seek factory employment against parents' wishes, Taiwanese daughters may be obliged to submit to parental decisions and work for years in order to contribute income. The concept of 'household strategies', however, inadequately describes both situations, masking relations of power, resistance and inequality within the household. The assumptions underlying the concept of household strategies and their broader analytical implications are explored, leading to the conclusion that a more differentiated view of the household is needed, taking power relations and struggles between genders and generations into account.