Asian/Pacific Islander American Women : A Historical Anthology

Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Through "Our" Eyes: Asian/Pacific Islander American Women's History 1(15) Shirley Hune Introduction: On Our Terms: Definitions and Context 16(9) Gail M. Nomura PART I Re-envisioning Women's History 1 Constructed Images of Native Hawaiian Women 25(17) Davianna Põmaika'i McGregor 2 Unlearning Orientalistm: Locating Asian and Asian American Women in Family History 42(16) Kathleen Uno 3 What Happened to the Women? Chinese and Indian Male Migration to the United States in Global Perspective 58(19) Sucheta Mazumdar PART II Revisiting Immigrant Wives and Picture Brides 4 Exclusion Acts: Chinese Women during the Chinese Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 77(13) Erika Lee 5 Housewives, Men's Villages, and Sexual Respectability: Gender and the Interrogation of Asian Women at the Angel Island Immigration Station 90(16) Jennifer Gee 6 Redefining the Boundaries of Traditional Gender Roles: Korean Picture Brides, Pioneer Korean Immigrant Women, and Their Benevolent Nationalism in Hawaii 106(17) Lili M. Kim PART III Recovering Women's History through Oral History and Journal Writing 7 "A Bowlful of Tears": Lee Puey You's Immigration Experience at Angel Island 123(15) Judy Yung 8 Filipina American Journal Writing: Recovering Women's History 138(17) Gail M. Nomura PART IV Contesting Cultural Formations and Practices, Constructing New "Hybrid" Lives 9 "The Ministering Angel of Chinatown": Missionary Uplift, Modern Medicine, and Asian American Women's Strategies of Liminality 155(17) Judy Tzu-Chun Wu 10 Japanese American Girls' Clubs in Los Angeles during the 1920's and 1930's 172(16) Valerie J. Matsumoto 11 Contested Beauty: Asian American Women's Cultural Citizenship during the Early Cold War Era 188(17) Shirley Jennifer Lim 12 Passed into the Present: Women in Hawaiian Entertainment 205(16) Amy Ku'uleialoha Stillman PART V Reshaping Lives and Communities after Militarism and War 13 Imagined Community: Sisterhood and Resistance among Korean Military Brides in America, 1950-1996 221(16) Ji-Yeon Yuh 14 Managing Survival: Economic Realities for Vietnamese American Women 237(16) Linda Trinh Võ 15 Scarred, yet Undefeated: Hmong and Cambodian Women and Girls in the United States 253(18) Sucheng Chan PART VI Negotiating Globalization, Work, and Motherhood 16 Asian Immigrant Women and Global Restructuring, 1970's-1990's 271(15) Rhacel Salazar Parreñas 17 Politicizing Motherhood: Chinese Garment Workers' Campaign for Daycare Centers in New York City, 1977-1982 286(15) Xiaolan Bao 18 Caring across Borders: Motherhood, Marriage, and Filipina Domestic Workers in California 301(18) Charlene Tung PART VII Challenging Community and the State: Contemporary Spaces of Struggle 19 Asian Lesbians in San Francisco: Struggles to Create a Safe Space, 1970's-1980's 319(16) Trinity A. Ordorva 20 Relocating Struggle: Filipino Nurses Organize in the United States 335(15) Catherine Ceniza Choy 21 Opening Spaces: South Asian American Women Leaders in the Late Twentieth Century 350(15) Madhulika S. Khandelwal 22 Chamorro Women, Self-Determination, and the Politics of Abortion in Guam 365(20) Vivian Loyola Dames PART VIII Additional Resources 23 Asian American and Pacific Islander American Women as Historical Subjects: A Bibliographic Essay 385(16) Shirley Hune 24 "In Her Eyes": An Annotated Bibliography of Video Documentaries on Asian/Pacific Islander American Women 401(16) Nancy In Kyung Kim About the Contributors 417(4) Index 421