1 Constructed Images of Native Hawaiian Women

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: Through “Our” Eyes: Asian/Pacific Islander American Women’s History 1
5. Introduction: On Our Terms: Definitions and Context 16
6. Part 1 Re-envisioning Women’s History
7. 1 Constructed Images of Native Hawaiian Women 23
8. 2 Unlearning Orientalism Locating Asian and Asian American Women in Family History 42
9. 3 What Happened to the Women? Chinese and Indian Male Migration to the United States in Global Perspective 58
10. 4 Exclusion Acts Chinese Women during the Chinese Exclusion Era, 1882–1943 77
11. 5 Housewives, Men’s Villages, and Sexual Respectability Gender and the Interrogation of Asian Women at the Angel Island Immigration Station 90
12. 6 Redefining the Boundaries of Traditional Gender Roles Korean Picture Brides, Pioneer Korean Immigrant Women, and Their Benevolent Nationalism in Hawai‘i 106
13. Part 3 Recovering Women’s History through Oral History and Journal Writing
14. 7 “A Bowlful of Tears” Lee Puey You’s Immigration Experience at Angel Island 121
15. 8 Filipina American Journal Writing Recovering Women’s History 138
16. Part 4 Contesting Cultural Formations and Practices, Constructing New “Hybrid” Lives
17. 9 “The Ministering Angel of Chinatown” Missionary Uplift, Modern Medicine, and Asian American Women’s Strategies of Liminality 153
18. 10 Japanese American Girls’ Clubs in Los Angeles during the 1920s and 1930s 172
19. 11 Contested Beauty Asian American Women’s Cultural Citizenship during the Early Cold War Era 188
20. 12 Passed into the Present Women in Hawaiian Entertainment 205
21. Part 5 Reshaping Lives and Communities after Militarism and War
22. 13 Imagined Community Sisterhood and Resistance among Korean Military Brides in America, 1950–1996 219
23. 14 Managing Survival Economic Realities for Vietnamese American Women 237
24. 15 Scarred, yet Undefeated Hmong and Cambodian Women and Girls in the United States 253
25. Part 6 Negotiating Globalization,Work, and Motherhood
26. 16 Asian Immigrant Women and Global Restructuring, 1970s–1990s 269
27. 17 Politicizing Motherhood Chinese Garment Workers’ Campaign for Daycare Centers in New York City, 1977–1982 286
28. 18 Caring across Borders Motherhood, Marriage, and Filipina Domestic Workers in California 301
29. Part 7 Challenging Community and the State: Contemporary Spaces of Struggle
30. 19 Asian1 Lesbians in San Francisco Struggles to Create a Safe Space, 1970s–1980s 317
31. 20 Relocating Struggle: Filipino Nurses Organize in the United States 335
32. 21 Opening Spaces South Asian American Women Leaders in the Late Twentieth Century 350
33. 22 Chamorro Women, Self-Determination, and the Politics of Abortion in Guam 365
34. Part 8 Additional Resources
35. 23 Asian American and Pacific Islander American Women as Historical Subjects: A Bibliographic Essay 383
36. 24 “In Her Eyes” An Annotated Bibliography of Video Documentaries on Asian/Pacific Islander American Women 401
37. About the Contributors 417
38. Index 421