It is the Only Way I Can Survive

Gender Paradox among Recent Mexicana Immigrants to Iowa

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2482041
AutoresPhyllis L Baker (University of Northern Iowa, autor de correspondencia)
Año2004
Volumen47
Número4
Páginas393-408
Fecha de publicación2004-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0731-1214 • E-ISSN: 1533-8673
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1525/sop.2004.47.4.393
OpenAlexW2130654831
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24
Referencias citadas21

The purpose of this study was to collect, analyze, and report the voices of immigrant Mexicanas as they talked about their new lives in Iowa. Changing material conditions wrested from them their traditional lifestyle and threw them into a situation in which they adapted by maintaining traditional gender ideology while transgressing traditional gender behavior. This gender paradox connects their ideology and behavior in a kind of functionality whereby the women violate traditional gender boundaries as a way to maintain and support traditional gender ideology. The paradoxical relationship between behavior and ideology does not just co-occur; rather, breaking away from traditional gender behavior helps to protect the traditional gender ideology that is central to their lives. The gender paradox reveals that Mexicanas are active agents carving a space for themselves under rapidly changing material conditions

Carving · Ideology · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Computer Science · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social Psychology