Claiming place: on the agency of Hmong women

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Hmong Women, Gender, and Power -- Part I. History and Knowledge Formation -- 1. Rewriting Hmong Women in Western Texts -- 2. Rechronicling Histories: Toward a Hmong Feminist Perspective -- 3. Rethinking Hmong Women's Wartime Sacrifices -- Part II. Social Organization, Kinship, and Politics -- 4. The Women of ""Dragon Capital"": Marriage Alliances and the Rise of Vang Pao -- 5. Hmong Women, Family Assets, and Community Cultural Wealth -- 6. Divorced Hmong Women in Thailand: Negotiating Cultural Space -- Part III. Art and Media

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