Chia Youyee Vang is associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 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 California-Merced.

"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

• ContentsIntroduction: Hmong Women, Gender, and PowerChia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs, and Ma VangPart I. History and Knowledge Production1. Rewriting Hmong Women in Western TextsLeena N. Her2. Rechronicling Histories: Toward a Hmong Feminist Perspective Ma Vang3. Rethinking Hmong Women’s Wartime Sacrifices: On Gender and SexualityChia Youyee VangPart II. Social Organization and Kinship4. The Women of “Dragon Capital”: Marriage Alliances and the Rise of Vang PaoMai Na Lee5. Hmong Women, Family Assets, and Community Cultural WealthJulie Keown-Bomar and Ka Vang6. Divorced Hmong Women in Thailand: Negotiating Cultural SpacePrasit LeepreechaPart III. Art and Media 7. Hmong Women on the Web: Transforming Power through Social NetworkingFaith Nibbs8. Stitching Hmongness into Cloth: Pliable Identity and Cultural AgencyGeraldine Craig9. Reel Women: Diasporic Cinema and Female Collectivity in Abel Vang’s Nyab Siab ZooAline Lo Part IV. Gender and Sexuality10. Thinking Diasporic Sex: Cultures, Erotics, and Media across Hmong WorldsLouisa Schein11. Dangerous Questions: Queering Gender in the Hmong DiasporaBruce Thao12. Finding Queer Hmong America: Gender, Sexuality, Culture, and Happiness among Hmong LGBTQKong PhaAfterwordCathy Schlund-VialsAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex

Chia Youyee Vang is associate professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 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 California-Merced.

"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

• ContentsIntroduction: Hmong Women, Gender, and PowerChia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs, and Ma VangPart I. History and Knowledge Production1. Rewriting Hmong Women in Western TextsLeena N. Her2. Rechronicling Histories: Toward a Hmong Feminist Perspective Ma Vang3. Rethinking Hmong Women’s Wartime Sacrifices: On Gender and SexualityChia Youyee VangPart II. Social Organization and Kinship4. The Women of “Dragon Capital”: Marriage Alliances and the Rise of Vang PaoMai Na Lee5. Hmong Women, Family Assets, and Community Cultural WealthJulie Keown-Bomar and Ka Vang6. Divorced Hmong Women in Thailand: Negotiating Cultural SpacePrasit LeepreechaPart III. Art and Media 7. Hmong Women on the Web: Transforming Power through Social NetworkingFaith Nibbs8. Stitching Hmongness into Cloth: Pliable Identity and Cultural AgencyGeraldine Craig9. Reel Women: Diasporic Cinema and Female Collectivity in Abel Vang’s Nyab Siab ZooAline Lo Part IV. Gender and Sexuality10. Thinking Diasporic Sex: Cultures, Erotics, and Media across Hmong WorldsLouisa Schein11. Dangerous Questions: Queering Gender in the Hmong DiasporaBruce Thao12. Finding Queer Hmong America: Gender, Sexuality, Culture, and Happiness among Hmong LGBTQKong PhaAfterwordCathy Schlund-VialsAcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex