Countering the idea of Hmong women as victims, the contributors to this pathbreaking volume demonstrate how the prevailing scholarly emphasis on Hmong culture and men as the primary culprits of women s subjugation perpetuates the perception of a Hmong premodern status and renders unintelligible women s nuanced responses to patriarchal strategies of
Countering the idea of Hmong women as victims, the contributors to this pathbreaking volume demonstrate how the prevailing scholarly emphasis on Hmong culture and men as the primary culprits of women s subjugation perpetuates the perception of a Hmong premodern status and renders unintelligible women s nuanced responses to patriarchal strategies of
Chia Youyee Vang is associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee, where she is founder and director of the Hmong Diaspora Studies Certificate Program. Faith Nibbs is founding director of the Forced Migration Upward Mobility Project. She is author of Belonging: The Social Dynamics of Fitting In as Experienced by Hmong Refugees in Germany and Texas and co-editor of Identity and the Second Generation: How Children of Immigrants Find Their Space. Ma Vang is assistant professor of critical race and ethnic studies at the University of California—Merced.
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Contents Introduction: Hmong Women, Gender, and Power Chia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs, and Ma Vang Part I. History and Knowledge Production 1. Rewriting Hmong Women in Western Texts Leena N. Her 2. Rechronicling Histories: Toward a Hmong Feminist Perspective Ma Vang 3. Rethinking Hmong Women’s Wartime Sacrifices: On Gender and Sexuality Chia Youyee Vang Part II. Social Organization and Kinship 4. The Women of “Dragon Capital”: Marriage Alliances and the Rise of Vang Pao Mai Na Lee 5. Hmong Women, Family Assets, and Community Cultural Wealth Julie Keown-Bomar and Ka Vang 6. Divorced Hmong Women in Thailand: Negotiating Cultural Space Prasit Leepreecha Part III. Art and Media 7. Hmong Women on the Web: Transforming Power through Social Networking Faith Nibbs 8. Stitching Hmongness into Cloth: Pliable Identity and Cultural Agency Geraldine Craig 9. Reel Women: Diasporic Cinema and Female Collectivity in Abel Vang’s Nyab Siab Zoo Aline Lo Part IV. Gender and Sexuality 10. Thinking Diasporic Sex: Cultures, Erotics, and Media across Hmong Worlds Louisa Schein 11. Dangerous Questions: Queering Gender in the Hmong Diaspora Bruce Thao 12. Finding Queer Hmong America: Gender, Sexuality, Culture, and Happiness among Hmong LGBTQ Kong Pha Afterword Cathy Schlund-Vials Acknowledgments Contributors Index
Contents Introduction: Hmong Women, Gender, and Power Chia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs, and Ma Vang Part I. History and Knowledge Production 1. Rewriting Hmong Women in Western Texts Leena N. Her 2. Rechronicling Histories: Toward a Hmong Feminist Perspective Ma Vang 3. Rethinking Hmong Women’s Wartime Sacrifices: On Gender and Sexuality Chia Youyee Vang Part II. Social Organization and Kinship 4. The Women of “Dragon Capital”: Marriage Alliances and the Rise of Vang Pao Mai Na Lee 5. Hmong Women, Family Assets, and Community Cultural Wealth Julie Keown-Bomar and Ka Vang 6. Divorced Hmong Women in Thailand: Negotiating Cultural Space Prasit Leepreecha Part III. Art and Media 7. Hmong Women on the Web: Transforming Power through Social Networking Faith Nibbs 8. Stitching Hmongness into Cloth: Pliable Identity and Cultural Agency Geraldine Craig 9. Reel Women: Diasporic Cinema and Female Collectivity in Abel Vang’s Nyab Siab Zoo Aline Lo Part IV. Gender and Sexuality 10. Thinking Diasporic Sex: Cultures, Erotics, and Media across Hmong Worlds Louisa Schein 11. Dangerous Questions: Queering Gender in the Hmong Diaspora Bruce Thao 12. Finding Queer Hmong America: Gender, Sexuality, Culture, and Happiness among Hmong LGBTQ Kong Pha Afterword Cathy Schlund-Vials Acknowledgments Contributors Index
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