A Feeling of Belonging: Asian American Women's Public Culture, 1930-1960When we imagine the activities of Asian American women in the mid-twentieth century, our first thoughts are not of skiing, beauty pageants, magazine reading, and sororities. Yet, Shirley Jennifer Lim argues, these are precisely the sorts of leisure practices many second generation Chinese, Filipina, and Japanese American women engaged in during this time. |
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... Hollywood costumes show that cultural practices are bound up with style. Style not only manifests race, class, and gender subtexts but also histories and power dynamics.18 Yet, race is more than theatricality—it is also a coercive ...
... Hollywood starlets. The pictorial essay showed them playing various sports, relaxing around campus, and wearing sophisticated dress and hair fashions. It displayed photographs of sorority rush, and the accompanying text stated that only ...
... Hollywood Queen Esthers, Chi Alpha Delta, and Keisen Gakuyukai.”90 Thus members of Chi Alpha Delta who participated in the queen contest could take their knowledge of fashion and appearance to the sorority and vice versa. In honor of ...
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Contents
2 I Protest | |
3 Shortcut to Glamour | |
4 Contested Beauty | |
5 Riding the Crest of an Oriental Wave | |
6 Conclusion | |
Notes | |
Index | |
About the Author | |