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

Other author Vang, Chia Youyee, 1971-
Other author Nibbs, Faith G.
Other author Vang, Ma, 1982-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
Descriptionxxviii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2015022458
ISBN9780816697762 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816697786 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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