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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Our Voices 1
4. Introduction: Our Histories 8
5. Part I: Early Era, Indigenous and Global Roots
6. 1. Mālamalama: Reconnecting as Native Hawaiian Women through Cultural History 17
7. 2. Global Roots and Gendered Routes: Early Asian American Women’s History 37
8. 3. Two Sisters, Two Stories: Transnational Lives of Ume Tsuda and Yona Abiko 53
9. Part II: New Intersections of Race, Gender, Generation, Communities
10. 4. “Up to My Elbows in Rice!”: Women Building Communities and Sustaining Families in Pre- 1965 Filipina/o America 69
11. 5. Stretching the Boundaries of Christian Respectability, Race, and Gender during Jim Crow: Chinese American Women and the Southern Baptist Church 87
12. 6. Stepping Onstage and Breaking Ground: Asian American Dancers Complicate Race and Gender Stereotypes, 1930s– 1960s 106
13. Part III: New Cultural Formations, New Selves
14. 7. “She Speaks Well”: Language as Performance of Japanese American Femininity and Social Mobility in Postwar Hawaiʻi 123
15. 8. History, Identity, and the Life Course: Mixed Race Asian American Women 140
16. 9. Ancestral Ethics and Sāmoanness: Explaining the Contemporary Sāmoan American Women 155
17. Part IV: Wartimes and Aftermath 171
18. 10. Memories of Mass Incarceration: Mobilizing Japanese American Women for Redress and Beyond 171
19. 11. Refugee Lifemaking Practices: Southeast Asian Women 189
20. 12. “Defiant Daughters”: The Resilience and Resistance of 1.5- Generation Vietnamese American Women 205
21. Part V: Globalization, Work, Family, Community, Activism
22. 13. Precarious Labor: Asian Immigrant Women, 1970s– 2010s 221
23. 14. The Backbone of New York City’s Chinatown: Chinese Women and the Garment Industry, 1950– 2009 238
24. 15. Women’s Agency and Cost in Migration: Taiwanese American Transnational Families 254
25. 16. “Revolutionary Care” as Activism: Filipina Nurses and Care Workers in Chicago, 1965– 2016 269
26. Part VI: Spaces of Political Struggles
27. 17. The Mother’s Tongue: Language, Women, and the Chamorros of Guam 285
28. 18. Asian American Feminisms and Legislative Activism: Patsy Takemoto Mink in the US Congress 304
29. 19. Opening the Path to Marriage Equality: Asian American Lesbians Reach Out to Their Families and Communities 321
30. 20. Turning Points: South Asian Feminist Responses to Gender- Based Violence and Immigration Enforcement 338
31. Part VII: New Diasporas, Diverse Lives, Evolving Identities
32. 21. Locating Adoptees in Asian America: Jane Jeong Trenka and Deann Borshay Liem 355
33. 22. “Let Them Attack Me for Wearing the Hijab”: Islam and Identity in the Lives of Bangladeshi American Women 373
34. 23. Navigating the Hyphen: Tongan- American Women in Academia 388
35. Part VIII: Gender, Cultural Change, Intergenerational Dynamics
36. 24. Linked Lives: Korean American Daughters and Their Aging Immigrant Parents 405
37. 25. Negotiating Cultural Change: Professional Hmong American Women 423
38. 26. Stories and Visions across Generations: Khmer American Women 439
39. Reflections 457
40. Acknowledgments 465
41. About the Contributors 467
42. Index 475