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Filipina Military Brides

其他書名	Negotiating Assimilation and Cultural Maintenance Within a Bi-cultural Setting
出版	Ohio State University, 2006
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=68e-jwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Abstract: I investigate the extent of spousal influence on assimilation and cultural maintenance as power levels within marriages can reveal hierarchical racial/gender positions in societal stratification structures on a micro-scale. This research is based on seven qualitative semi structured interviews with Filipina women involved in interracial military-based marriages, and is supplemented by archival research and previously published oral histories. Although my hypotheses assume that pressures for assimilation are in conflict with pressures to maintain cultural traditions, the results complicate dichotomous readings of these two forces. The results suggest that assimilation and cultural maintenance can be fundamentally intertwined in the construction of identity. Although social networks play an important role in maintaining cultural traditions, the results also suggest that spousal power is a key determinate in this process, with those husbands who engage in Filipino cultural traditions facilitating a greater amount of cultural maintenance within the lives of their wives.