Women, Gender, and Diasporic Lives

Evangelia Tastsoglou is professor and chair in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at St. Mary's University

• Chapter 1 En/Gendering the Greek Diaspora(s): Theoretical and Historical ConsiderationsPart 2 Gender and LaborChapter 3 Greek Migrant Women in Germany: Strategies of Autonomy in DiasporaChapter 4 Women Networking for Families: Class, Gender, and Ethnicity in Job Searches among Greek Immigrants in New YorkChapter 5 The Business of Social Change: Gender and the Ethnic Enclave Economy in the Greek Immigrant Community of AstoriaChapter 6 "The Temptations of New Surroundings": Family, State, and Transnational Gender Politics in the Movement of Greek Domestic Workers to Canada in the 1950s and 1960sPart 7 Gender and Diasporic CommunitiesChapter 8 The Greeks in Canada: Immigration, Socio-Economic Mobility, and Ethnic IdentityChapter 9 From Napster to MEGA: Power, Gender, and Generation in a Greek-Canadian CommunityChapter 10 Women's Status in the Greek Colonies of EgyptPart 11 Gender and IdentitiesChapter 12 Living Diaspora "Back Home": Daughters of Greek Emigrants in GreeceChapter 13 Gender and Ethno-Regional Identity among Greek Australians: IntersectionsChapter 14 Black Greeks or White Africans? Landscapes of Divergence and Poetics of Belonging

The reader who associates “home” and “identity” with single nations will be fascinated by this gendered analysis of Greek families and communities around the world. The section on gender and labor and the section on gender and identity are must-reads for feminist scholars, regardless of their geographic fields.