Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Through "Our" Eyes: Asian/Pacific Islander American Women's History	1
	Introduction: On Our Terms: Definitions and Context	16
1	Constructed Images of Native Hawaiian Women	25
2	Unlearning Orientalism: Locating Asian and Asian American Women in Family History	42
3	What Happened to the Women? Chinese and Indian Male Migration to the United States in Global Perspective	58
4	Exclusion Acts: Chinese Women during the Chinese Exclusion Era, 1882-1943	77
5	Housewives, Men's Villages, and Sexual Respectability: Gender and the Interrogation of Asian Women at the Angel Island Immigration Station	90
6	Redefining the Boundaries of Traditional Gender Roles: Korean Picture Brides, Pioneer Korean Immigrant Women, and Their Benevolent Nationalism in Hawai'i	106
7	"A Bowlful of Tears": Lee Puey You's Immigration Experience at Angel Island	123
8	Filipina American Journal Writing: Recovering Women's History	138
9	"The Ministering Angel of Chinatown": Missionary Uplift, Modern Medicine, and Asian American Women's Strategies of Liminality	155
10	Japanese American Girls' Clubs in Los Angeles during the 1920s and 1930s	172
11	Contested Beauty: Asian American Women's Cultural Citizenship during the Early Cold War Era	188
12	Passed into the Present: Women in Hawaiian Entertainment	205
13	Imagined Community: Sisterhood and Resistance among Korean Military Brides in America, 1950-1996	221
14	Managing Survival: Economic Realities for Vietnamese American Women	237
15	Scarred, yet Undefeated: Hmong and Cambodian Women and Girls in the United States	253
16	Asian Immigrant Women and Global Restructuring, 1970s-1990s	271
17	Politicizing Motherhood: Chinese Garment Workers' Campaign for Daycare Centers in New York City, 1977-1982	286
18	Caring across Borders: Motherhood, Marriage, and Filipina Domestic Workers in California	301
19	Asian Lesbians in San Francisco: Struggles to Create a Safe Space, 1970s-1980s	319
20	Relocating Struggle: Filipino Nurses Organize in the United States	335
21	Opening Spaces: South Asian American Women Leaders in the Late Twentieth Century	350
22	Chamorro Women, Self-Determination, and the Politics of Abortion in Guam	365
23	Asian American and Pacific Islander American Women as Historical Subjects: A Bibliographic Essay	385
24	"In Her Eyes": An Annotated Bibliography of Video Documentaries on Asian/Pacific Islander American Women	401
	About the Contributors	417
	Index	421