Claiming Place: On the Agency of Hmong Women
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Claiming Place: On the Agency of Hmong Women
By (Author) Chia Youyee Vang
Edited by Faith Nibbs
Edited by Ma Vang
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st June 2016
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Migration, immigration and emigration
Gender studies: women and girls
Ethnic studies
305.48895972
Physical Properties
Paperback
368
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 51mm
Description
Countering the idea of Hmong women as victims, the contributors to this pathbreaking volume demonstrate how the prevailing scholarly emphasis on Hmong culture and 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
Reviews
"An important work for Asian American studies and ethnic studies."--CHOICE
"This book should be hailed as a novel and welcome contribution to gender studies among Asian Americans."--Pacific Affairs
Author Bio
Chia Youyee Vang is associate professor of history at the University of WisconsinMilwaukee, where she is founder and director of the Hmong Diaspora Studies Certificate Program.
Faith Nibbs is founding director of the Forced Migration Upward Mobility Project. She is author of Belonging: The Social Dynamics of Fitting In as Experienced by Hmong Refugees in Germany and Texas and co-editor of Identity and the Second Generation: How Children of Immigrants Find Their Space.
Ma Vang is assistant professor of critical race and ethnic studies at the University of CaliforniaMerced.
