Our Voices, Our Histories - by Shirley Hune & Gail M Nomura (Paperback)

About the Book

""Our Voices, Our Histories" explores stories of Asian American and Pacific Islander Women."--

Book Synopsis

An innovative anthology showcasing Asian American and Pacific Islander women's histories

Our Voices, Our Histories brings together thirty-five Asian American and Pacific Islander authors in a single volume to explore the historical experiences, perspectives, and actions of Asian American and Pacific Islander women in the United States and beyond.

This volume is unique in exploring Asian American and Pacific Islander women's lives along local, transnational, and global dimensions. The contributions present new research on diverse aspects of Asian American and Pacific Islander women's history, from the politics of language, to the role of food, to experiences as adoptees, mixed race, and second generation, while acknowledging shared experiences as women of color in the United States.

Our Voices, Our Histories showcases how new approaches in US history, Asian American and Pacific Islander studies, and Women's and Gender studies inform research on Asian American and Pacific Islander women. Attending to the collective voices of the women themselves, the volume seeks to transform current understandings of Asian American and Pacific Islander women's histories.

Review Quotes

"A field-defining work, charting the past, present, and future of Asian American women's history."--Miliann Kang, author of The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work

"Carrying the thread of women's agency throughout, this anthology encompasses struggles and triumphs around social, cultural, and civic citizenship, expanding outward from the US context to incorporate analyses of how gender is always already intersectional and intertwined with globalization, transnationalism, and empire-building in the Asian American and Pacific Islander context. . . . A welcome addition."--Charlene Tung, Sonoma State University

"This immersive anthology begins to address gaps and transform understanding in history and literature by, for and about Asian American and Pacific Islander women."-- "Ms. Magazine"