A study of the Asian woman as sexual icon in visual culture.
Popular genre fiction written by Asian American women and featuring Asian American characters gained a market presence in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These ?crossover? books{u2014}mother-daughter narratives, chick lit, detective fiction, and food writing…
Popular genre fiction written by Asian American women and featuring Asian American characters gained a market presence in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. These "crossover" books-mother-daughter narratives, chick lit, detective fiction, and food writing-attem…
In August 1996 President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act that fulfilled his campaign promise to “end welfare as we know it,” and one month later the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act passed, deepen…
This book explores the unstudied nature of diaspora among young Korean, Japanese and Chinese women living and studying in the West. Why do women move? What are the actual conditions of their transnational lives? How do they make sense of their transnational lives through the exp…
"Drawing on a wide range of perspectives from media and communications, sociology, cultural studies and anthropology, this volume provides an empirically grounded and theoretically insightful investigation into the mediated identies of women in the East Asian diaspora."--
"TRAFFIC IN ASIAN WOMEN positions "Asian women" as an analytic through which to understand dominant international discourses of female injury and empowerment in the 1990s. Laura Kang's book starts from a question: why the sudden interest in the Japanese military "comfort system…
"Filthy Fictions addresses Asian American literature by women to explore and explode the sedimented and solidified meanings of "Asian Americans" and "dirt". Crossing disciplinary and institutional boundaries, Filthy Fictions also questions the very ground upon which these argume…