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Author:   Maria Gindidis ,  Jane Southcott (Monash University, Australia) ,  Rose Wake
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9781666971002

ISBN 10:   1666971006
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   05 February 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Women of the Diaspora: Generational Transformations by Jane Southcott Chapter 2: Intergenerational Trauma, Learnings and Resilience: Vietnamese Women in Australia by Nathalie Huyhn Chao Nguyen Chapter 3: “Diasporic Women and Cultural Enclaves”: An Acculturation Lens on Inhabiting and Traversing Diverse Sites by Reshmi Lahiri-Roy and Nicola Sum Chapter 4: Immigrant Mother, Writer Daughter: Disparate Stories Entwined by Lena Pasqua Chapter 5: Autoethnography of a Tattoo: The Impact of Migration on a Sicilian Female Left Behind by Angela Princiotto Chapter 6: A Gold Bracelet: Links of Liberation by Maria Gindidis Chapter 7: I Am and I Am Not My Mother by Rose Wake Chapter 8: Storying Distance: Lived Experiences of Post War Second Generation Italian Australian Middle-Aged Women by Teresa Capetola Chapter 9: Ascolta! Intergenerational Stories of Challenges and Resilience by Teresa Capetola, Luci Callipari Marcuzzo, Fortunata Callipari, Annamaria Paolino, Katrina Lolicato, Jemana Stellato Pledger, and Maria Pallotta Chiarolli Chapter 10: Backyard Reckonings: Colonizer/Colonized Crossings and Reckonings in an Italian-Australian Women’s Backyard by Maria Pallotti-Chiarolli Chapter 11: African Women’s Constructions of Feminisms in the Diaspora: An Ethnographic Study of Identity Negotiation across Cultures by Gloria Pindi Nziba Chapter 12: Conclusions and Provocations by Rose Wake and Jane Southcott Index About the Editors About the Contributors

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This curated collection offers a timely and critical contribution to feminist approaches to diaspora studies, highlighting the multiple challenges and difficulties that diasporic women face, including racism and oppressive patriarchal norms. Building on extremely rich ethnographic and autoethnographic data, the authors invite us to consider diasporic women’s stories in their diversity and complexity, highlighting the importance of intersectional approaches for understanding how and when they can exercise their agency. This collection will be of immense interest to scholars working at the intersection of gender and diaspora studies. * Élise Féron, Tampere University * This book portrays the different ways in which women experience diaspora. The editors include powerful and passionate accounts covering African and Vietnamese migrants, but the core contributions centre on Australian ‘proxy brides’ brought from southern Europe to marry unseen husbands in Australia. Many struggled with new language acquisition and retained homeland cultures and mother tongues. Without turning them into passive victims, the authors (some themselves descendants of proxy brides) movingly show both how the scars of their original arrival remained and how they could be transcended. * Robin Cohen, professor emeritus, University of Oxford; author of Global Diasporas: An Introduction *

Author Information

Maria Gindidis is an educator and researcher within the Faculty of Education at Monash University. Jane Southcott is a phenomenologist who researches education, cultural identities and hybridity, and community engagement with the arts with a focus on positive ageing. Rose Wake is a research assistant and associate lecturer at Monash University.

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