In her mother's house: the politics of Asian American mother-daughter writing

Introduction

Beneath the pirie mangotree: the self-talking story about mothers and daughters

Feminist recovery and reception: Chinese American mother-daughter stories

The traffic in women: migration and representation

Outlaw brotherhood: cultural nationalism and the politics of mother-daughter discourses

Desire in the desert: the self talking-story in Maxine Hong Kingston's mother-daughter stories

Losing your innocence but not your hope: Amy Tan's Joy Luck mothers and Coca-Cola daughters

"The heart never travels": the incorporation of fathers in the mother-daughter stories of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan and Fae Myenne Ng

Coda: the political heart of the matter.