| Description |
xxxvi, 369 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Essays originally published in Frontiers : a journal of women's studies. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction, Reimagining Asian American women's experiences / Linda Trinh Võ and Marian Sciachitano -- "Bowlful of tears" : Chinese women immigrants on Angel Island ; "It is hard to be born a woman but hopeless to be born a Chinese" : the life and times of Flora Belle Jan / Judy Yung -- Japanese American women during World War II ; Desperately seeking "Deirdre" : gender roles, multicultural relations, and Nisei women writers of the 1930s / Valerie Matsumoto -- Japanese American women and the student relocation movement, 1942-1945 / Leslie A. Ito -- Like a bamboo : representations of a Japanese war bride / Debbie Storrs -- What is winning anyway? : redefining veteran : a Vietnamese American woman's experiences in war and peace / Suzan Ruth Travis-Robyns -- Cultural autobiography, testimonial, and Asian American transnational feminist coalition in the "Comfort Women of War War II" conference / Pamela Thoma -- Cost of caring : the social reproductive labor of Filipina live-in home health caregivers / Charlene Tung -- Asian American women's studies courses : a look back at our beginnings / Judy Chu -- De/colonizing the exotic : teaching "Asian women" in a U.S. classroom / Piya Chatterjee -- Negotiating textual terrain : a conversation on critical and pedagogical interventions in the teaching of ethnic autobiography / Shelli B. Fowler ... [et al.] -- Reconstructing identity : the autobiographical self of a Japanese American women in Lydia Minatoya's Talking to High Monks in the Snow / Aki Uchida -- Remembering "the nation" through pageantry : femininity and the politics of Vietnamese womanhood in the Hoa Hau Ao Dai contest / Nhi T. Lieu -- Fence sitters, switch hitters, and bi-bi girls : an exploration of hapa and bisexual identities / Beverly Yuen Thompson. |
| Subject |
Asian American women -- History.
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Asian American women. |
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History. |
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Asian American women -- Social conditions.
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Asian American women -- Social conditions. |
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Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity.
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Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity. |
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Women immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Women immigrants. |
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United States. |
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Social conditions. |
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Transnationalism.
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Transnationalism. |
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United States -- Relations -- Asia.
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Relations. |
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Asia. |
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Asia -- Relations -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Võ, Linda Trinh, 1964-
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Sciachitano, Marian, 1962-
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| Added Title |
Frontiers (Boulder, Colo.)
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| ISBN |
0803296274 paperback alkaline paper |
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