Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.