| Description |
xxviii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Countering the idea of Hmong women as victims, Claiming Place demonstrates how the scholarly emphasis on 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 in the United States and in Southeast Asia. The contributors expand knowledge about the Hmong lived reality and broaden 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. Organized to highlight themes of history, memory, war, migration, sexuality, selfhood, and belonging, this book moves beyond a critique of Hmong patriarchy and culture 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.--From publisher description. |
| Subject |
Women, Hmong -- Social life and customs.
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Women, Hmong -- Social conditions.
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| Added Author |
Vang, Chia Youyee, 1971- editor.
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Nibbs, Faith G., editor.
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Vang, Ma, 1982- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780816697762 (hardback) (alkaline paper) |
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0816697760 (hardback) (alkaline paper) |
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9780816697786 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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0816697787 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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