"Strangers" of the academy : Asian women scholars in higher education / edited By Guofang Li and Gulbahar Beckett ; foreword by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim.

Foreword : identities Asian, female, scholar : critiques and celebrations of the North American Academy / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim -- Introduction : reconstructing culture and identity in the academy : Asian female scholars theorizing their experiences / Guofang Li and Gulbahar H. Beckett -- 1. Asian Pacific American women and men in higher education : the contested spaces of their participation, persistence, and challenges as students, faculty, and administrators / Shirley Hune -- 2. Asian American gender gap in science and technology : tracking male versus female college students' paths toward academic careers / Jaekyung Lee -- 3. Theorizing experiences of Asian women faculty in second- and foreign-language teacher education / Angel Lin, Ryuko Kubota, Su Motha, Wendy Wang and Shelly Wong -- 4. Professing in a nonnative tongue : narrative construction of realities and opportunities / Xiaoping Liang -- 5. Multiple mentors in my career as a university faculty / Keilo Komiya Samimy -- 6. Navigating multiple roles and multiple discourses : a young Asian female scholar's reflection on within-race-and-gender interactions / Guofang Li -- 7. Asian American women in the academy : overcoming stress and overturning denials in advancement / Chalsa M. Loo and Hsiu-Zu Ho -- 8. Brown in black and white : on being a South Asian woman academic / Nina Asher -- 9. Unmasking the self : struggling with the model minority stereotype and lotus blossom image / Eunai Kim Shrake -- 10. Within the "safe haven" of women's studies : a Thai female faculty's reflection on identity and scholarship / Piya Pangsapa -- 11. Between the worlds : searching for a competent voice / Yan Guo -- 12. Moderation, modesty, creativity, and criticalness : a Chinese American medical professor speaks / Gulbahar H. Beckett and Jianhua Zhang -- 13. The road less traveled : an Asian woman immigrant faculty's experience practice global pedagogy in teacher education / Guichun Zong -- 14. From mentorship to friendship, collaboration, and collegiality / Xue Lan Rong and Judith Preissle -- 15. Building bridges, working for a better world / Jing Lin.

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