Making waves: an anthology of writings by and about Asian American women

Part 1. Poem by the wellside / Meena Alexander.

Okasan/mother / Sakae S. Roberson.

A girl on the swing / Chungmi Kim.

The people here: a letter / Myrna Peña-Reyes.

Magic island / Cathy Song.

The world of our grandmothers / Connie Young Yu.

Voices from the past: why they came / Dorothy Cordova.

Korean immigrant women in early twentieth-century America / Sun Bin Yim.

The hardships of escape for Vietnamese women / Van Luu.

Part 2. Shadow in stone / Janice Mirikitani. We the exiled / Brenda Paik Sunoo. War story / Elaine H. Kim. The hopeland / K. Kam. My mother's purple dress / Evelyn Lee and Gloria Oberst. Nisei women and resettlement during World War II / Valerie Matsumoto. Part 3. And all the girls cried / Kathy Wong. Chinatown talking story / Kitty Tsui. Issei working women in Hawaii / Gail M. Nomura. Ladies on the line: Punjabi cannery workers in southern California / Marcelle Williams. Behind unmarked doors: developments in the garment industry / Diane Yen-Mei Wong, with Dennis Hayashi. Women in the Silicon Valley / Rebecca Villones. Asian American women in broadcasting / Felicia Lowe. The gap between striving and achieving: the case of Asian American women / Deborah Woo.

Part 4. Mother / Beheroze F. Shroff.

The loom / R. A. Sasaki.

The parrot's beak / Kartar Dhillon.

Waiting for papa's return / Cecilia Manguerra Brainard.

Dreams of Manong Frankie / Virginia Cerenio.

Part 5. Behind the shadow / Angela Lobo-Cobb.

Double doors / Jonny Sullivan Price.

Growing up Asian in America / Kesaya E. Noda.

Makapuu Bay / Wakako Yamauchi.

Broad shoulders / Nellie Wong.

You're short, besides! / Sucheng Chan.

Mestiza girlhood: interracial families in Chicago's Filipino American community since 1925 / Barbara M. Posadas.

Asian American lesbians: an emerging voice in the Asian American community / Pamela H.

Part 6. Factory girls / Chea Villanueva.

Mosquitoes in the main room / Meena Alexander.

Two deserts / Valerie Matsumoto.

Lotus blossoms don't bleed: images of Asian women / Renee E. Tajima.

The business of selling mail-order brides / Venny Villapando.

Domestic violence among Pacific Asians / Nilda Rimonte.

Matchmaking in the classifieds of the immigrant Indian press / Rashmi Luthra.

Part 7. In rememberance / Janice Mirikitani.

For the poets of "Firetree" on the second anniversary of the death of Benigno Aquino / Valorie Bejarano.

Growing up, 1968-1985 / Juanita Tamayo Lott.

The feminist movement: where are all the Asian-American women? / Esther Ngan-Ling Chow.

From homemaker to housing advocate: an interview with Mrs. Chang Jok Lee / Nancy Diao.

Dust and dishes: organizing workers / Yoichi Shimatsu and Patricia Lee.

Seeking a voice: South Asian women's groups in North America / Jyotsna Vaid.

Asian Pacific women in mainstream politics / Judy Chu.

In rememberance / Janice Mirikitani.