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Micollier Evelyne. (2017). Femininities on transnational journeys and sexual health risk : experiences of Chinese immigrant women in Canada. Gender, Place and Culture, 24 (12), p. 1787-1806. ISSN 1787-1806.

Titre du document
Femininities on transnational journeys and sexual health risk : experiences of Chinese immigrant women in Canada
Année de publication
2017
Type de document
Article référencé dans le Web of Science WOS:000423300300007
Auteurs
Micollier Evelyne
Source
Gender, Place and Culture, 2017, 24 (12), p. 1787-1806 ISSN 1787-1806
Negotiations at work in a globalising China in regard to femininity, sexuality, and family relationships have been well documented from the 1990s. Nonetheless less is known about them in a transnational context, and femininities are far less explored than masculinities. Drawing on interview data from a larger research study of transnationalism and gendered HIV vulnerability, this article investigates the intersection of femininity, sexuality and sexual health risk through Chinese immigrant women's narratives about their experiences in Canada. It examines to what extent these intimate negotiations within China are re-enacted through Chinese immigrant women's transnational experiences in Canada. These women live ‘in-between' China and Canada in terms of identity, space and time with their cross-cultural connections unveiling both virtual and actual relations. Gender norms and roles, intimate and sexual experience, and family relations are realigned in the transnational lives of these women and are impacted by both their home and host societies, as well as their past and present experience in China. Used in the article as a concept and an analytical lens, gender is acknowledged as a key organising principle in post-immigration individual and social experience.
Plan de classement
Sociologie et anthropologie de la santé [056SOCSAN] ; Migrations [108MIGRA]
Descripteurs
FEMME ; IMMIGRATION ; SEXUALITE ; SIDA ; RELATION DE GENRE ; SYSTEME DE REPRESENTATIONS ; ANTHROPOLOGIE DE LA SANTE ; FAMILLE ; RISQUE SANITAIRE ; SANTE DE LA REPRODUCTION ; ORDRE SOCIAL
Description Géographique
CHINE ; CANADA
Localisation
Fonds IRD [F B010071746]
Identifiant IRD
fdi:010071746
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