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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... woman, which signifies that I come from a numerically small American racial minority group, I did not grow up with Asianethnic community practices and was fascinated when I discovered their historical prominence in the mid-twentieth ...
... woman, clothes, books, movies, magazines, gossip, and get-togethers have all jostled me out of paralysis and prompted me to lumber out of bed in the morning and face the world. For anyone who has endured the same, this book is for you ...
... Woman President,” “Beauty, Basically Speaking,” and “Nancy Ito, Star Athlete” showed Asian American women as physically attractive athletic leaders. Dehumanized and stereotyped in dominant culture, Asian American women performed beauty ...
... woman who continually grappled with how to present racial difference during the turbulent middle decades of the twentieth century. Others faced similar dilemmas in public venues such as beauty pageants, magazines and ethnic presses ...
... woman would be sent passage and could then migrate to the United States. Visuality and performance also constituted the experiences of Filipina American women, for many first entered the United States after the Spanish-American War in ...
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 | |