Synopses & Reviews
Asian/Pacific Islander American Women is the first collection devoted to the historical study of A/PI women's diverse experiences in America. Covering a broad terrain from pre-large scale Asian emigration and Hawaii in its pre-Western contact period to the continental United States, the Philippines, and Guam at the end of the twentieth century, the text views women as historical subjects actively negotiating complex hierarchies of power.
The volume presents new findings about a range of groups, including recent immigrants to the U.S. and understudied communities. Comprised of original new work, it includes chapters on women who are Cambodian, Chamorro, Chinese, Filipino, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Native Hawaiian, South Asian, and Vietnamese Americans. It addresses a wide range of women's experiences-as immigrants, military brides, refugees, American born, lesbians, workers, mothers, beauty contestants, and community activists. There are also pieces on historiography and methodology, and bibliographic and video documentary resources.
This groundbreaking anthology is an important addition to the scholarship in Asian/Pacific American studies, ethnic studies, American studies, women's studies, and U.S. history, and is a valuable resource for scholars and students.
Contributors include: Xiaolan Bao, Sucheng Chan, Catherine Ceniza Choy, Vivian Loyola Dames, Jennifer Gee, Madhulika S. Khandelwal, Lili M. Kim, Nancy In Kyung Kim, Erika Lee, Shirley Jennifer Lim, Valerie Matsumoto, Sucheta Mazumdar, Davianna Pomaika'i McGregor, Trinity A. Ordona, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman, Charlene Tung, Kathleen Uno, Linda Trinh Võ, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Ji-Yeon Yuh, and Judy Yung.
Review
"Hune and Nomura have produced a much-needed anthology that will contribute in a substantial way to introductory courses in their field. The book also does much to elevate Asian-American women beyond the secondary roles to which they too often have been relegated in male-dominated texts. For this service alone, all of us who teach and seek to understand further the Asian-American experience owe them our gratitude." - American Historical Review
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“A valuable collection of essays focusing on a broad array of issues concerning Asian/Pacific Islander women. This collection is recommended to all who share these concerns across various fields and disciplines.”
“This rich collection heralds the growing significance of Asian/Pacific Islander American women in American history and women's history. The essays cover an impressive breadth of historical periods, specific groups of women, and topics. The volume showcases the diverse research of emerging scholars. These diverse subjects call forth new and creative approaches in research and writing, and this collection both demonstrates and promises exciting advances in the content and methods of historical studies.”
“Hune and Nomura have produced a much-needed anthology that will contribute in a substantial way to introductory courses in their field. The book also does much to elevate Asian-American women beyond the secondary roles to which they too often have been relegated in male-dominated texts. For this service alone, all of us who teach and seek to understand further the Asian-American experience owe them our gratitude.”
Synopsis
A groundbreaking anthology devoted to Asian/Pacific Islander American women and their experiences
Asian/Pacific Islander American Women is the first collection devoted to the historical study of A/PI women's diverse experiences in America. Covering a broad terrain from pre-large scale Asian emigration and Hawaii in its pre-Western contact period to the continental United States, the Philippines, and Guam at the end of the twentieth century, the text views women as historical subjects actively negotiating complex hierarchies of power.
The volume presents new findings about a range of groups, including recent immigrants to the U.S. and understudied communities. Comprised of original new work, it includes chapters on women who are Cambodian, Chamorro, Chinese, Filipino, Hmong, Japanese, Korean, Native Hawaiian, South Asian, and Vietnamese Americans. It addresses a wide range of women's experiences-as immigrants, military brides, refugees, American born, lesbians, workers, mothers, beauty contestants, and community activists. There are also pieces on historiography and methodology, and bibliographic and video documentary resources.
This groundbreaking anthology is an important addition to the scholarship in Asian/Pacific American studies, ethnic studies, American studies, women's studies, and U.S. history, and is a valuable resource for scholars and students.
Contributors include: Xiaolan Bao, Sucheng Chan, Catherine Ceniza Choy, Vivian Loyola Dames, Jennifer Gee, Madhulika S. Khandelwal, Lili M. Kim, Nancy In Kyung Kim, Erika Lee, Shirley Jennifer Lim, Valerie Matsumoto, Sucheta Mazumdar, Davianna Pomaika'i McGregor, Trinity A. Ordona, Rhacel Salazar Parre as, Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman, Charlene Tung, Kathleen Uno, Linda Trinh V , Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Ji-Yeon Yuh, and Judy Yung.
Synopsis
This Major Reference series brings together a wide range of key international articles in law and legal theory. Many of these essays are not readily accessible, and their presentation in these volumes will provide a vital new resource for both research and teaching. Each volume is edited by leading international authorities who explain the significance and context of articles in an informative and complete introduction.
About the Author
Shirley Hune is Professor of Urban Planning and Asian American Studies and Associate Dean of the Graduate Division at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Gail M. Nomura is Assistant Professor of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington.
Table of Contents
Introduction : Through "our" eyes : Asian/Pacific islander American women's history / Shirley Hune -- Introduction : On our terms : definitions and context / Gail M. Nomura -- Constructed images of native Hawaiian women / Davianna Påomaika°i McGregor -- Unlearning orientalism : locating Asian and Asian American women in family history / Kathleen Uno -- What happened to the women? Chinese and Indian male migration to the United States in global perspective / Sucheta Mazumdar -- Exclusion acts : Chinese women during the Chinese exclusion era, 1882-1943 / Erika Lee -- Housewives, men's villages, and sexual respectability : gender and the interrogation of Asian women at the Angel Island immigration station / Jennifer Gee -- Redefining the boundaries of traditional gender roles : Korean picture brides, pioneer Korean immigrant women, and their benevolent nationalism in Hawai°i / Lili M. Kim -- "A bowlful of tears" : Lee Puey You's immigration experience at Angel Island / Judy Yung -- Filipina American journal writing : recovering women's history / Gail M. Nomura -- "The ministering angel of Chinatown" : missionary uplift, modern medicine, and Asian American women's strategies of liminality / Judy Tzu-Chun Wu -- Japanese American girls' clubs in Los Angeles during the 1920s and 1930s / Valerie J. Matsumoto -- Contested beauty : Asian American women's cultural citizenship during the early Cold War era / Shirley Jennifer Lim -- Passed into the present : women in Hawaiian entertainment / Amy Ku°uleialoha Stillman -- Imagined community : sisterhood and resistance among Korean military brides in America, 1950-1996 / Ji-Yeon Yuh -- Managing survival : economic realities for Vietnamese American women / Linda Trinh Väo -- Scarred, yet undefeated : Hmong and Cambodian women and girls in the United States / Sucheng Chan -- Asian immigrant women and global restructuring, 1970s-1990s / Rhacel Salazar Parreänas -- Politicizing motherhood : Chinese garment workers' campaign for daycare centers in New York City, 1977-1982 / Xiaolan Bao -- Caring across borders : motherhood, marriage, and Filipina domestic workers in California / Charlene Tung -- Asian lesbians in San Francisco : struggles to create a safe space, 1970s-1980s / Trinity A. Ordona -- Relocating struggle : Filipino nurses organize in the United States / Catherine Ceniza Choy --Opening spaces : South Asian American women leaders in the late twentieth century / Madhulika S. Khandelwal -- Chamorro women, self-determination, and the politics of abortion in Guam / Vivian Loyola Dames -- Asian American and Pacific islander American women as historical subjects : a bibliographic essay / Shirley Hune -- "In her eyes" : an annotated bibliography of video documentaries on Asian/Pacific islander American women / Nancy In Kyung Kim.