This collection places Asian women centre stage and challenges a dichotomized view of Asia and the ""west"" or ""north."" It offers an understanding of Asian women in their networks of connections through the work of feminist scholars discussing Asian women in North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia. While the focus is on how Asian women are socially constructed and represented in books, on screen, and in the media, it also includes discussions on how Asian women present and represent themselves.
Few books deal with Asian women's interconnections, and yet fewer express the range of theoretical perspectives, linkages, and disciplines that are the focus of this collection. Asian Women: Interconnections opens important intellectual discussions about Asian Canadian feminism, and comparative feminisms.
Few books deal with Asian women's interconnections, and yet fewer express the range of theoretical perspectives, linkages, and disciplines that are the focus of this collection. Asian Women: Interconnections opens important intellectual discussions about Asian Canadian feminism, and comparative feminisms.
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This collection places Asian women centre stage and challenges a dichotomized view of Asia and the “west” or “north.” It offers an understanding of Asian women in their networks of connections through the work of feminist scholars discussing Asian women in North America, Asia, Europe, and Australia.
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- Acknowledgements
- Introduction - Tineke Hellwig and Sunera Thobani
- Herstories: Lived Experiences
- Chapter 1: Issues in Constituting asian-canadian feminisms - Jo-Anne Lee
- Why now? Why This Term?
- What's in a Name?
- asian canadian as a Political Constituency
- acf as Ambiguity and Struggle
- The Need for asian-canadian feminist Thought
- A Beginning
- acf in Women's Studies Classrooms
- Asian Feminist Transnationalism
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2: Modernization and Global Restructuring of Women's Work: Border-Crossing Stories of Iranian Women - Parin Dossa
- Introduction
- The Intersectionality Paradigm: ""Why Can I Not Work in Canada?""
- Border Crossing
- First Moments
- The Canvas of Life
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3: Emancipation of Oppression in Diaspora? Korean Women Academics and Their Diasporic Experience - Hyaeweol Choi
- Introduction
- Alternative Space Imagined for Women
- Rearticulation of Gender Identity through Transnational Experience
- Becoming Women of ""Colour""
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4: Diasporic Culture and Women in Diaspora: The Case of Rene Wu - Limin Bai
- Introduction
- No Education for Girls: A Chinese Childhood in Australia
- Rene's Marriage: Following Your Rooster When You Are Married to a Rooster
- Diasporic Culture and Implications for Women in Diaspora
- IMAGINING ASIAN-NESS IN THE DIASPORA
- Chapter 5: Translation and Transformation in Chorus of Mushrooms and When Fox Is a Thousand - Shao-Pin Luo
- Introduction
- Story: Remembering
- Myth: Retelling
- Poetry: Revisioning
- Conclusion: Transformations
- Chapter 6: Abusive Mothers: Literary Representations of the Mother Figure in Three Ethnic Chinese Writers: Hsieh Ping-ying, Denis Chong, and Chen Ying - Maria Ng
- Introduction
- Hsieh Ping-ying and Mothers in May Fourth Writing
- Chinese Canadian Writers Representing Mothers
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7: From Dragon Lady to Action Hero: Race and Gender in Popular Western Television - Yasmin Jiwani
- Introduction
- Problematizing ""Asian"" Women
- Historical Representations: The Legacy
- Contemporary Representations
- Dragon Ladies and Warrior Women
- The Warrior Woman and the Asian Goddess
- Condensing Two Traditions in One Sign
- Conclusion
- ASIA VIEWING
- Chapter 8: Uncertain Triangles: Lesbian Desire in Hong Kong Cinema - Helen Hok-Sze Leung
- Prologue: Beyond the Marriage Debates
- Hong Kong Cinema and the Lesbian Subject
- Theories of Triangles
- Heroic Masculinity and Femme Invisibility
- Romance and Its Discontent
- Heterosexual Horrors
- Chapter 9: ""Pop"" Feminism in China: The Expansion of Women's Studies to Popular Women's Magazines - Sharon R. Wesoky
- Introduction
- Women's Studies in China
- Women's Magazines and Feminist Activism
- Women's Studies in Women's Magazines
- Conclusion
- Chapter 10: Knowledge Crossing Borders: Images of South Asian Women in Newspaper Reporting on Sex-Selection Practices - Marsha Henry
- Introduction
- Worlds Apart? Analyzing Canadian Newspapers in Relation to SSP
- Hierarchies within: Analyzing Indian Newspapers in Relation to SSP
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Notes on the Contributors
- Copyright Acknowledgements
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780889614574
Publisert
2005-12-30
Utgiver
Women's Press of Canada; Women's Press of Canada
Vekt
385 gr
Høyde
228 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
280
Om bidragsyterne
Dr. Tineke Hellwig is the Chair of Women's Studies and Associate Professor in Asian Studies, University of British Columbia.Dr. Sunera Thobani is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at the Centre for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations, University of British Columbia.