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Dragon Ladies
Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire
Sonia Shah (Editor); Yuri Kochiyama (Preface); Karin Aguilar-San Juan (Foreword)
Pages: 240ISBN: 0-89608-575-9
Format: paper
Release Date: 1997-01-01
This book is also available in cloth
In Dragon Ladies, prominent Asian American women writers, artists, and activists seize the power of their unique political perspective and cultural background to articulate an Asian American feminist politics and to transform the landscape of race, class, and gender in the United States.
In sixteen critical essays, these writers draw on a wealth of personal experience and cogent analysis of Asian women's relationships to immigration, work, health, domestic violence, spirituality, cultural production, and the media. From the global trade in Asian womenworkers to the elitism of the white feminist movement, no ground is sacred. These women warrriors don't mince words but speak with fierce conviction and surprising insight.
This book showcases the growing politicization of Asian American women and their emerging feminist movement. It will be a vital contribution to women's and Asian American studies, and a must-read for Asian women and girls everywhere.
Contributors
Delia D. Aguilar; Margarita Alcantara; Anannya Bhattacharjee; Kshiteeja Bhide; Grace Chang; Pamela Chiang; Milyoung Cho; Sayantani DasGupta; Shamita Das Dasgupta; Diane C. Fujino; Elaine H. Kim; Yuri Kochiyama; Miriam Ching Louie; Lynn Lu; Meizhu Lui; Leslie Mah; Sia Nowrojee; Juliana Pegues; Bandana Purkayastha; Shyamala Raman; Karin Aguilar-San Juan; Seema Sha; Purvi Shah; Jael Silliman; Julie Sze; Cheng Imm Tan; Selena Whang; and Helen Zia.
Honorable Mention in Gustave Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America's Outstanding Book Awards 1997
Table of Contents
Preface Trailblazing in a White World
Foreword Breathing Fire, Confronting Power, and Other Necessary
Acts of Resistance
Introduction Slaying the Dragon Lady Toward an Asian American Feminism
Part 1 Strategies and Visions
Strategies From the Field
Critical Visions
A Slippery Path
Redefining the Home
On Asian America, Feminism, and Agenda-Making
Part 2 An Agenda for Change
Asian Women's Health
Expanding Environmental Justice
Empowering Women
Building Shelter
Part 3 Global Perspectives
Breaking the Cycle
The Global Trade in Filipina Workers
Lost in Translation
Part 4 Awakening to Power
Revolution's from the Heart
Bringing Up Baby
Searching for the Ox
Yellowdykecore
Sonia Shah
Click here to view Sonia Shah's full Author PageSonia Shah's other titles include Between Fear and Hope: A Decade of Peace Activism and Crude: The Story of Oil (2004, Seven Stories Press). A former editor at South End Press and Nuclear Times Magazine, Shah is an independent journalist whose writing appears in the Nation, the Progressive, Salon, and elsewhere.