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