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Asian/Pacific Islander American women : a historical anthology

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Asian/Pacific Islander American women : a historical anthology / edited by Shirley Hune and Gail M. Nomura.

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xi, 426 pages; 26 cm

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History.
Aufsatzsammlung.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : Through "our" eyes : Asian/Pacific islander American women's history / Shirley Hune -- Introduction : On our terms : definitions and context / Gail M. Nomura -- Constructed images of native Hawaiian women / Davianna Pōmaikaʻi McGregor -- Unlearning orientalism : locating Asian and Asian American women in family history / Kathleen Uno -- What happened to the women? Chinese and Indian male migration to the United States in global perspective / Sucheta Mazumdar -- Exclusion acts : Chinese women during the Chinese exclusion era, 1882-1943 / Erika Lee -- Housewives, men's villages, and sexual respectability : gender and the interrogation of Asian women at the Angel Island immigration station / Jennifer Gee -- Redefining the boundaries of traditional gender roles : Korean picture brides, pioneer Korean immigrant women, and their benevolent nationalism in Hawaiʻi / Lili M. Kim -- "A bowlful of tears" : Lee Puey You's immigration experience at Angel Island / Judy Yung -- Filipina American journal writing : recovering women's history / Gail M. Nomura -- "The ministering angel of Chinatown" : missionary uplift, modern medicine, and Asian American women's strategies of liminality / Judy Tzu-Chun Wu -- Japanese American girls' clubs in Los Angeles during the 1920s and 1930s / Valerie J. Matsumoto -- Contested beauty : Asian American women's cultural citizenship during the early Cold War era / Shirley Jennifer Lim -- Passed into the present : women in Hawaiian entertainment / Amy Kuʻuleialoha Stillman -- Imagined community : sisterhood and resistance among Korean military brides in America, 1950-1996 / J i-Yeon Yuh -- Managing survival : economic realities for Vietnamese American women / Linda Trinh Võ -- Scarred, yet undefeated : Hmong and Cambodian women and girls in the United States / Sucheng Chan -- Asian immigrant women and global restructuring, 1970s-1990s / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas -- Politicizing motherhood : Chinese garment workers' campaign for daycare centers in New York City, 1977-1982 / Xiaolan Bao -- Caring across borders : motherhood, marriage, and Filipina domestic workers in California / Charlene Tung -- Asian lesbians in San Francisco : struggles to create a safe space, 1970s-1980s / Trinity A. Ordona -- Relocating struggle : Filipino nurses organize in the United States / Catherine Ceniza Choy -- Opening spaces : South Asian American women leaders in the late twentieth century / Madhulika S. Khandelwal -- Chamorro women, self-determination, and the politics of abortion in Guam / Vivian Loyola Dames -- Asian American and Pacific islander American women as historical subjects : a bibliographic essay / S hirley Hune -- "In her eyes" : an annotated bibliography of video documentaries on Asian/Pacific islander American women / Nancy In Kyung Kim.

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