Asian American women : the Frontiers reader
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Asian American women : the Frontiers reader
University of Nebraska Press, c2004
- : pbk
Available at 5 libraries
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Essays originally published in Frontiers : a journal of women's studies
Includes bibliographical references and index
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"Asian American Women" brings together landmark scholarship about Asian American women that has appeared in "Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies" over the last twenty-five years. The essays, written by established and emerging scholars, made a significant impact in the fields of Asian American studies, ethnic studies, women's studies, American studies, history, and pedagogy. The scholarship is still relevant today - broadening our critical understanding of Asian American women's resistance to the forces of racism, patriarchy, militarism, cultural imperialism, neo-colonialism, and narrow forms of nationalism.The essays in this collection reveal the experiences and struggles of Asian American women within a global political, economic, cultural, and historical context. The essays focus on diverse issues, including unconventional Asian American women of the early 1900s; the life of a Japanese war bride; possibilities for trans-national Asian American feminism; the politics of Vietnamese American beauty pageants; mixed race identities and bisexual identities; Filipina healthcare providers; South Asian American representations; and a multiracial exchange on pedagogical interventions.The collection represents the rich diversity of Asian American women's lives in hope of creating a new trans-national space of critical dialogue, strategic resistance, and alliance building.
Linda Trinh Vo is an assistant professor of Asian American studies at the University of California, Irvine. She co-edited (with Rick Bonus) "Contemporary Asian American Communities: Intersection and Divergences". Marian Sciachitano teaches women's studies courses at Washington State University. She has been a member of the Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies collective since 1994. Susan H. Armitage is a professor of history at Washington State University and a former editor of "Frontiers". Patricia Hart and Karen Weathermon are managing editors of "Frontiers".
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