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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vang, Chia Youyee, editor.

Nibbs, Faith, editor.

Vang, Ma, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women, Hmong--Social life and customs.

Women, Hmong.

Women, Hmong--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; London, [England] : University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

Summary:

Countering the idea of Hmong women as victims, the contributors to this pathbreaking volume demonstrate how the prevailing scholarly emphasis on Hmong culture and men as the primary culprits of women's subjugation perpetuates the perception of a Hmong premodern status and renders unintelligible women's nuanced responses to patriarchal strategies of domination both in the United States and in Southeast Asia. Claiming Place expands knowledge about the Hmong lived reality while contributing to broader conversations on sexuality, diaspora, and agency. While these essays center on Hmong experiences, activism, and popular representations, they also underscore the complex gender dynamics between women and men and address the wider concerns of gendered status of the Hmong in historical and contemporary contexts, including deeply embedded notions around issues of masculinity. Organized to highlight themes of history, memory, war, migration, sexuality, selfhood, and belonging, this book moves beyond a critique of Hmong patriarchy to argue that Hmong women have been and continue to be active agents not only in challenging oppressive societal practices within hierarchies of power but also in creating alternative forms of belonging. Contributors: Geraldine Craig, Kansas State U; Leena N. Her, Santa Rosa Junior College; Julie Keown-Bomar, U of Wisconsin-Extension; Mai Na M. Lee, U of Minnesota; Prasit Leepreecha, Chiang Mai U; Aline Lo, Allegheny College; Kong Pha; Louisa Schein, Rutgers U; Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, U of Connecticut; Bruce Thao; Ka Vang, U of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4529-5006-7

OCLC:

944346999