Asian American Feminism

Individual Feminists on this site:

Geraldine Heng

Individual Feminists on other sites:

Karin Aguilar - San Juan

Chitra Divakaruni

Alice Y. Hom

Other Asian American Feminists

Internet Links

One of the best Asian American feminist websites is Mimi Nguyen's "Critchicks" page, which is located here. This sits contains a bibliography of articles available on the Internet, film lists, and many other resources.

SAWNET: South Asian Women's Net can be accessed here.

Introduction

This page includes information on these areas in Asian American feminism: General Information, Aesthetics, History, Literature, and Politics.



Bibliography

General Information

Espiritu, Yen Le. Asian American Women and Men: Labor, Laws, and Love. Sage, 1996.

Song, Young I. and Ailee Moon, ed. Korean American Women: From Tradition to Modern Feminism. 1998.

Women of South Asian Descent Collective, ed. Our Feet Walk the Sky: Women of the South Asian Diaspora. 1993.



Aesthetics

Lee, Gia B. Revisions of Feminism: An Analysis of Contemporary Film and Video Directed by Asian American Women. 1992.



History

Um, Shin Ja. Korean Immigrant Women in the Dallas-Area Apparel Industry: Looking for Feminist Threads in Patriarchal Cloth.1996.



Literature

"For every gesture of loyalty, there doesn't have to be a betrayal": Feminism and Cultural Nationalism in Asian American Women's Literature. 1993.

Kafka, Phillipa. (Un)doing the Missionary Position: Gender Asymmetry in Contemporary Asian American Women's Writing. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997.



Politics

Ngan-ling Chow, Esther, ed. Race, Class and Gender: Common Bonds, Different Voices. Thousand Oaks: Sage Pub., 1996.

Um, Shin Ja. Korean Immigrant Women in the Dallas-Area Apparel Industry: Looking for Feminist Threads in Patriarchal Cloth. University Press of America, 1996.