Research Catalog

Title

Claiming Place : On the Agency of Hmong Women / Chia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs, and Ma Vang, editors.

Publication

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Vang, Chia Youyee, 1971-
• Nibbs, Faith G.
• Vang, Ma, 1982-

Description

xxviii, 348 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Women, Hmong > Social life and customs
• Women, Hmong > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : Hmong women, gender, and power / Chia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs, and Ma Vang -- History and knowledge production -- Rewriting hmong women in western texts / Leena N. Her -- Rechronicling histories : toward a hmong feminist perspective / Ma Vang -- Rethinking hmong women's wartime sacrifices : on gender and sexuality / Chia Youyee Vang -- Social organization and kinship -- The women of "dragon capital" : marriage alliances and the rise of Vang Pao / Mai Na Lee -- Hmong women, family assets, and community cultural wealth / Julie Keown-Bomar and Ka Vang -- Divorced hmong women in Thailand : negotiating cultural space / Prasit Leepreecha -- Art and media -- Hmong women on the web : transforming power through social networking / Faith Nibbs -- Stitching hmongness into cloth : pliable identity and cultural agency / Geraldine Craig -- Reel women : diasporic cinema and female collectivity in Abel Vang's Nyab Siab zoo / Aline Lo -- Gender and sexuality -- Thinking diasporic sex : cultures, erotics, and media across Hmong worlds / Louisa Schein -- Dangerous questions : queering gender in the Hmong diaspora / Bruce Thao -- Finding queer Hmong America : gender, sexuality, culture, and happiness among Hmong LGBTQ / Kong Pha -- Afterword -- Cathy schlund-vials -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index.

Call Number

JFD 16-1557

ISBN

• 9780816697762 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 0816697760 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780816697786 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0816697787 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2015022458

OCLC

922697672

Title

Claiming Place : On the Agency of Hmong Women / Chia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs, and Ma Vang, editors.

Publisher

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Vang, Chia Youyee, 1971- editor.

Nibbs, Faith G., editor.

Vang, Ma, 1982- editor.

Research Call Number

JFD 16-1557