Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-187) and index
Amy Ling: Introduction ; Chronology ; ch. 1. Background on Amy Tan ; 1. The life of Amy Tan/ Laurie Champion ; 2. Tan turns autobiography into powerful fiction
Amy Tan: 3. The Joy Luck Club is not strictly autobiographical
Walter Shear: ch. 2. The Joy Luck Club and women's issues ; 1. Tan's young women must rediscover their Chinese identity
Zenobia Mistri: 2. June's symbolic journey to discover her ethnic identity
Wendy Ho: 3. Damaged by their mothers' high expectations
Gloria Shen: 4. Storytelling reconciles mothers and daughters
Helena Grice: 5. The maternal line of descent dominates The Joy Luck Club
Bonnie Braendlin: 6. Mother/daughter relationships in the post women's liberation era
Patricia P. Chu: 7. Female empowerment in The Joy Luck Club
Catherine Romagnolo: 8. Tan's beginning rejects stereotypes about immigrant women
Leslie Bow: 9. Empowerment through woman-to-woman bonding
Yuan Shu: 10. Asian American gender stereotypes in The Joy Luck Club
Jean Lau Chin: 11. Tan portrays strong Asian women
Paula Caplan: ch. 3. Contemporary perspectives on women's issues ; 1. Mothers are society's scapegoats
Nikki A. Toyama: 2. Asian American women must overcome limiting cultural stereotypes
Beverly Yuen Thompson: 3. Bioculturalism leads to one woman's acceptance of bisexuality
Iris Chang: 4. Asian women are still not completely accepted in the United States
International Labour Organization (ILO): 5. More women are working, but job equality remains elusive
Eleanor Holmes Norton: 6. Feminism is not dead, just evolving
