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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... gender and race through the remaking of mainstream culture. Although it is a serious work of American history, this book risks condemnation or trivialization, for it focuses on a marginalized group in American society, Asian American ...
... gender politics.1 The intersection of race and gender is evident in, for example, Chinese American actress Anna May Wong's struggle for roles as Chinese women against European American actresses in yellowface such as Myrna Loy ...
... gender differences, and family relations.”5 Thus, official organized political activity is not the only arena for serious scholarly inquiry. In this book, I appraise seemingly suspect arenas of femininity both for their reinscription of ...
... gender were incorporated into the American body politic. As unpropertied white men were granted the franchise in the nineteenth century, the citizenship color line was inscribed through military campaigns that dispossessed Native ...
... gender hierarchy intersected with the conceptual immigrant to create new categories of immigration exclusion. The very first American law to restrict immigration, the Page Law (1875), targeted Chinese women.10 Although the law was ...
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 | |