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During pregnancy, Hmong women carried out their daily responsibilities until the day they went into labor. A Hmong woman would follow her food cravings to guarantee that her child would not be born with a deformity. Once her water broke she would then walk to the nearest water source and carry water to her house to wash her baby when it was born.
Many Hmong still follow the tradition of taking herbal remedies. A common practice among Hmong women is following a strict diet after childbirth. This consists of warm rice, freshly boiled chicken with herbs (koj thiab ntiv), lemongrass, and a little salt. It is believed to be a healing process for the women.
Mai Na Lee (also Mai Na M. Lee; c. 1971 [a]) is an associate professor of history and Asian American studies at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities.She holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is a researcher for the Hmong Studies Consortium.
Hmong Americans traditionally choose spouses from outside their birth clans, and families negotiate terms of cultural marriage or divorce. A Hmong wife will traditionally join her husband’s clan ...
The book is the second in a middle-grade series based in Hmong mythology. Lee was born in Laos, but, like many Hmong people, her family was forced to flee to escape persecution after communist ...
Mao Khang of Wausau, a fierce advocate for Hmong victims of domestic violence, was the first woman to sit on the Hmong 18 Clan Council of Wisconsin.
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family from Houaysouy, Sainyabuli Province, Laos, [1] the Lees, and their interactions with the health care system in Merced, California.
Gender construct of Hmong women, traditionally, socially and politically, have historically been oppressive and marginalizing. Even in traditional Hmong cloth (paj ntaub) and folklore (dab neej) Hmong gender roles are concretely sewn and told, and repeated. Misogyny and patriarchy in the Hmong community is present to this day which calls for ...