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Women Crossing Boundaries: A Psychology of Immigration and Transformations of Sexuality
Author(s): Oliva Espin (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: Dec 22 1998
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 041591700X
- ISBN-13: 9780415917001
Book Description
First published in 1999. This book looks at the consequences of border crossings and immigration on women and their culture and sexual orientations. Espin demonstrates how deeply sexuality, language and gender affected by this large life change with the aid of 43 biographies of adolescent and adult women.
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About the Author
Oliva M. Espinis Professor of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University. She is the author ofLatinaHealers: Power, Tradition and Culture(1996) and has written widely about the psychology of women from different cultures and about women’s experiences as immigrants and refugees.
