Anna May Wong and Hazel Ying Lee--Two Second Generation Chinese American Women in World War II

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dc.contributor.advisorAsim, Inaen_US
dc.contributor.authorSui, Qianyuen_US
dc.creatorSui, Qianyuen_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-26T04:05:41Z
dc.date.available2012-10-26T04:05:41Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractApplying a historical approach which contextualizes ethnic and gender perspectives, this thesis investigates the obstacles that second-generation Chinese American women encountered as they moved into the public sphere. This included sexual restraints at home and racial harassment outside. This study examines, as well, the opportunities that stimulated these women to break from their confinements. Anna May Wong and Hazel Ying Lee will serve as two role models among this second generation of women who successfully combined their cultural heritage with their education in the U.S. Their contributions inspired a whole generation of young bi-cultural women of their time. I will argue that, although the second generation had gone through cultural acculturation and resistance toward American mainstream culture, they constructed their new Chinese American identity during World War II through a synthesis of their contribution to the gender relations and ethnic identification in nationalist project.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/12440
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.en_US
dc.subjectAnna May Wongen_US
dc.subjectChinese American Womenen_US
dc.subjectEthnicityen_US
dc.subjectFeminismen_US
dc.subjectHazel Ying Leeen_US
dc.subjectSecond-generationen_US
dc.titleAnna May Wong and Hazel Ying Lee--Two Second Generation Chinese American Women in World War IIen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US

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