By dividing the grandmothers in Taiwan into ethnic categories, we can see that the aboriginal grandmothers and the grandmothers who came from Japan when it ruled Taiwan are quite different from Han Chinese grandmothers, and so we created separate chapters for them. For instance, "Years at the Loom" describes the one traditional occupation of Atayal women: weaving.
台灣的阿媽包括在這塊土地上所有的阿媽，如果從族群來分，我們可以看到原住民阿媽以及嫁到台灣來的日本阿媽跟漢人的情形很不一樣，因此把她們獨立成篇，例如有一篇「織布機上的歲月」是講傳統的泰雅族婦女一生的事業都建立在織布機上。