Claiming place : on the agency of Hmong women / Chia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs, and Ma Vang, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vang, Chia Youyee, 1971- editor.

Nibbs, Faith G., editor.

Vang, Ma, 1982- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women, Hmong--Social life and customs.

Women, Hmong--Social conditions.

Women, Hmong.

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816697762

0816697760

9780816697786

0816697787

OCLC:

922697672