Claiming place : on the agency of Hmong women

Introduction : Hmong women, gender, and power / Chia Youyee Vang, Faith Nibbs, and Ma Vang --
History and knowledge production --
Rewriting hmong women in western texts / Leena N. Her --
Rechronicling histories : toward a hmong feminist perspective / Ma Vang --
Rethinking hmong women's wartime sacrifices : on gender and sexuality / Chia Youyee Vang --
Social organization and kinship --
The women of "dragon capital" : marriage alliances and the rise of Vang Pao / Mai Na Lee --
Hmong women, family assets, and community cultural wealth / Julie Keown-Bomar and Ka Vang --
Divorced hmong women in Thailand : negotiating cultural space / Prasit Leepreecha --
Art and media --
Hmong women on the web : transforming power through social networking / Faith Nibbs --
Stitching hmongness into cloth : pliable identity and cultural agency / Geraldine Craig --
Reel women : diasporic cinema and female collectivity in Abel Vang's Nyab Siab zoo / Aline Lo --
Gender and sexuality --
Thinking diasporic sex : cultures, erotics, and media across Hmong worlds / Louisa Schein --
Dangerous questions : queering gender in the Hmong diaspora / Bruce Thao --
Finding queer Hmong America : gender, sexuality, culture, and happiness among Hmong LGBTQ / Kong Pha --
Afterword --
Cathy schlund-vials --
Acknowledgments --
Contributors --
Index.