10/07/2026
Not Tiger Moms: From Reproductive Exclusion to Reproductive Justice for Asian American Families
Wednesday, October 14, 2:00-3:30 PM
Haines 279
Professor Kang will share insights from her new book, Not Tiger Moms: Reimagining Asian American Motherhood, which examines why motherhood has become such a charged site of gender, racial, and class conflict. Her talk will trace the histories and current politics that shape Asian American motherhood in the U.S. and show how Asian American mothers challenge and rewrite the terms of “model minority motherhood” through the framework of reproductive exclusion.
Miliann Kang is a Professor in Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies and affiliated faculty in Sociology and Asian/Asian American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of The Managed Hand: Race, Gender and the Body in Beauty Service Work (which won multiple book awards from the American Sociological Association and National Women’s Studies Association). Her most recent book, Not Tiger Moms: Reimagining Asian American Motherhood was just released by the University of California Press. She was a Fulbright Senior Scholar with Ewha University, and a Korea Foundation Fellow with Seoul National University, researching work and family issues for Asian and Asian American women in transnational contexts. She formerly served as Director of Diversity Advancement for the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. Her writing has been published in Gender and Society, Contexts, Gender, Work & Organization, Meridians, Newsweek, The Conversation, Women’s Review of Books, Huffington Post, the Korea Times and Ms.
