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NOT TIGER MOMS

"When setting out to write a book about Asian American mothering, I did not intend to write about tiger mothering," writes Kang, a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her thesis is insightful and trenchantly argued, and her interrogation of the ways in which narratives about motherhood have been overlooked in other scholarship ring true.

NOT TIGER MOMS

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"When setting out to write a book about Asian American mothering, I did not intend to write about tiger mothering," writes Kang, a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of...

Her thesis is insightful and trenchantly argued, and her interrogation of the ways in which narratives about motherhood have been overlooked in other scholarship ring true.

Sudha, an Indian American professor who is among the mothers interviewed, says, "The Asian American women I know are a bunch of badasses.

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"When setting out to write a book about Asian American mothering, I did not intend to write about tiger mothering," writes Kang, a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her thesis is insightful and trenchantly argued, and her interrogation of the ways in which narratives about motherhood have been overlooked in other scholarship ring true. Sudha, an Indian American professor who is among the mothers interviewed, says, "The Asian American women I know are a bunch of badasses.

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