Research Catalog

Title

Mothering in East Asian communities : politics and practices / edited by Patti Duncan and Gina Wong.

Publication

Bradford, Ontario : Demeter Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Duncan, Patti, 1970-
• Wong, Gina, 1971-

Description

xii, 302 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Motherhood > Political aspects > Canada
• Motherhood > Social aspects > Canada
• Motherhood > Political aspects > United States
• Motherhood > Social aspects > United States
• Mothers > Canada
• Mothers > United States
• East Asians > Canada
• East Asians > United States
• East Asians
• Motherhood > Political aspects
• Motherhood > Social aspects
• Mothers
• Canada
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: contextualizing and politicizing mothering in East Asian communities / Patti Duncan and Gina Wong -- The kinship of violence / Hosu Kim and Grace M. Cho -- Cheeseburger season / Grace M. Cho -- The Asian motherhood stigma: a historical glance at embedded women's practices in the Korean colonial media / Merose Hwang -- Chrysanthemum / Fiona Tinwei Lam -- The purpose of this life / Dmae Roberts -- a wandering daughter's grammar / Rita Wong -- Tiger in the hornets' nest: the furor over Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother / Fiona Tinwei Lam -- Neoliberal maternal discourse, tiger mothers, and Asian American mother-daughter narrative / Pamela Thoma -- Korean American mothering and model minority children / June H. Sun and Hyojoung Kim -- Bad mothers and "abominable lovers": goodness and gayness in Korea / Timothy Gitzen -- Ideology, gender, and entrepreneurship: implications for perceptions and experiences of mothers in Taipei, Taiwan / Talia Esnard -- Mothering across borders: South Korean birthmothers' perspectives / Rupa Bagga-Raoulx -- Reproductive justice and mothering: API activists redefine a movement / Kryn Freehling-Burton and Eveline Shen -- For the family: Filipino migrant mothers' activism and their transnational families / Valerie Francisco -- Asian American mothering as feminist decolonizing reproductive labor: four meditations on raising hapa boys / Melinda Luisa de Jesús, Patti Duncan, Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt, and Linda Pierce Allen -- Kite / Fiona Tinwei Lam -- Snowman / Fiona Tinwei Lam -- Bringing visibility to East Asian mothers in prison / Anita Harker Armstrong and Victoria Law -- Motherhood and the race for sustainability / Marie Lo.

ISBN

• 9781927335246
• 1927335248

LCCN

^^2014472512

OCLC

• 888558191
• SCSB-10588292

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library