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Our voices, our histories : Asian American and Pacific Islander women
Title:
Our voices, our histories : Asian American and Pacific Islander women
ISBN:
9781479877010
Physical Description:
ix, 484 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents:
Our voices / Our histories / Mālamalama: Reconnecting as Native Hawaiian women through cultural history / Global roots and gendered routes: Early Asian American women's history / Two sisters, two stories: Transnational lives of Ume Tsuda and Yona Abiko / "Up to my elbows in rice!": Women building communities and sustaining families in Pre-1965 Filipina/o America / Stretching the boundaries of Christian respectability, race, and gender during Jim Crow: Chinese American women and the Southern Baptist Church / Stepping onstage and breaking ground: Asian American dancers complicate race and gender stereotypes, 1930s-1960s / "She speaks well": Language as performance of Japanese American femininity and social mobility in postwar Hawai'i / History, identity, and life course: mixed race Asian American women / Ancestral ethics and Sāmoanness: Explaining the contemporary Sāmoan American Women / Memories of mass incarceration: Mobilizing Japanese American women for redress and beyond / Refugee lifemaking practices: Southeast Asian women / "Defiant daughters": The resilience and resistance of 1.5-generation Vietnamese American women / Precarious labor: Asian immigrant women, 1970s-2010s / The backbone of New York City's Chinatown: Chinese Women and the garment industry, 1950-2009 / Women's agency and cost in migration: Taiwanese American Transnational families / "Revolutionary care" as activism: Filipina nurses and care workers in Chicago, 1965-2016 / The mother's tongue: Language, women, and the Chamorros of Guam / Asian American feminisms and legislative activism: Patsy Takemoto Mink in the US Congress / Opening the path to marriage equality: Asian American lesbians reach out to their families and communities / Turning Points: South Asian feminist responses to gender-based violence and immigration enforcement / Locating adoptees in Asian America: Jane Jeong Trenka and Deann Borshay Liem / "Let them attack me for wearing the Hijab": Islam and identity in the lives of Bangladeshi American women / Navigating the hyphen: Tongan-American women in academia / Linked lives: Korean American daughters and their aging immigrant parents / Negotiating cultural change: Professional Hmong American women / Stories and visions across generations: Khmer American women / Reflections
Summary:
""Our Voices, Our Histories" explores stories of Asian American and Pacific Islander Women."-- Provided by publisher.
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