Asian American Women and Gender: A Reader / Edition 1

by Franklin Ng

Overview

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815326922
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/01/1998
Series:	Asians in American Life Series , #3
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Franklin Ng is Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Fresno. He holds a B.A. degree from Johns Hopkins University, an A.M. degree from Harvard University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago. The editor of The Asian American Encyclopedia, he is also the co-editor of New Visions in Asian American Studies: Diversity, Community, Power, the author of Chinese Americans Struggle for Equality, and has written articles for anthologies and journals. He serves as the editor of the Journal of American-East Asian Relations and is on the editorial board of the Amerasia Journal.

Table of Contents

Chow, Esther. The Development of Feminist Consciousness among Asian American Women. Gender and Society 1 (1987) * Ling, Susie Hsiuhan. The Mountain Movers: Asian American Women's Movement in Los Angeles. Amerasia Journal 15 (1989)* Dong, Lorraine. The Forbidden City Legacy and Its Chinese American Women. In Chinese America: History and Perspectives, 1992 (San Francisco: Chinese Historical Society of America, 1992) * Ng, Franklin. Maya Lin and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. In Chinese America: History and Perspectives, 1994 (San Francisco: Chinese Historical Society of America, 1994) * Yanagisako, Sylvia. Women-Centered Kin Networks in Urban Bilateral Kinship. American Ethnologist 4 (1975)* Kim, Kwang Chung and Won Moo Hurh. The Burden of Double Roles: Korean Wives in the U.S.A. Ethnic and Racial Studies 11 (1988) * Kim, Bok-Lim C. Asian Wives of U.S. Servicemen: Women in Shadows. Amerasia Journal 4 (1977) * Loo, Chalsa. Slaying Demons with a Sewing Needle: Feminist Issues for Chinatown's Women. Berkeley Journal of Sociology 27 (1982)* Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproduction Labor. igns 18 (1992) * Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. Split Househodl, Small Producer and Dual Wage Earner: An Analysis of Chinese-American Family Strategies. Journal of Marriage and the Family 45 (1983) * Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. Occupational Ghettoization: Japanese American Women and Domestic Service, 1905-1970. Ethnicity 8 (1981) * Matthaei, Julie and Teresa Amot. Race, Gender, Work: The History of Asian and Asian American Women. Race and Class 31 (1990)* Stier, Haya. Immigrant Women Go to Work: Analysis of Immigrant Wives Labor Supply for Six Asian Groups. Social Science Quarterly 72 (1991) * Kibria, Nazli. Power, Patriarchy, and Gender Conflict in the Vietnamese Immigrant Community. Gender and Society 4 (1990) * Meredith, William H. and George P. Rowe. Changes in Lao Hmong Marital Attitudes after Immigrating to the United States. Journal of Comparative Family Studies 17 (1986) * Scott, George M. To Catch or Not to Catch a Thief: A Case of Bribe Theft among Lao Hmong Refugees in Southern California. Ethnic Groups 7 (1988 )* Peterson, Sally. Translating Experience and the Reading of a Story Cloth. Journal of American Folklore 101 (1988) * Chin, Ko-lin. Out-of-Town Brides: International Marriage and Wife Abuse among Chinese Immigrants. Journal of Comparative Family Studies 25 (1994) * Takagi, Dana. Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America. Amerasia Journal 20 (1994) * Hom, Alice Y. Stories from the Home Front: Perspectives of Asian American Parents with Lesbian Daughters and Gay Sons. Amerasia Journal 20 (1994) * Manalansan, Martin F. Searching for Community: Filipino Gay Men in New York City. Amerasia Journal 20 (1994).