Women of the Diaspora

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.

• Chapter 1: Women of the Diaspora: Generational Transformations by Jane SouthcottChapter 2: Intergenerational Trauma, Learnings and Resilience: Vietnamese Women in Australia by Nathalie Huyhn Chao NguyenChapter 3: “Diasporic Women and Cultural Enclaves”: An Acculturation Lens on Inhabiting and Traversing Diverse Sites by Reshmi Lahiri-Roy and Nicola SumChapter 4: Immigrant Mother, Writer Daughter: Disparate Stories Entwined by Lena PasquaChapter 5: Autoethnography of a Tattoo: The Impact of Migration on a Sicilian Female Left Behind by Angela PrinciottoChapter 6: A Gold Bracelet: Links of Liberation by Maria GindidisChapter 7: I Am and I Am Not My Mother by Rose WakeChapter 8: Storying Distance: Lived Experiences of Post War Second Generation Italian Australian Middle-Aged Women by Teresa CapetolaChapter 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 ChiarolliChapter 10: Backyard Reckonings: Colonizer/Colonized Crossings and Reckonings in an Italian-Australian Women’s Backyard by Maria Pallotti-ChiarolliChapter 11: African Women’s Constructions of Feminisms in the Diaspora: An Ethnographic Study of Identity Negotiation across Cultures by Gloria Pindi NzibaChapter 12: Conclusions and Provocations by Rose Wake and Jane SouthcottIndexAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors

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.