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Author De Jesús, Melinda L

Title Pinay Power : Peminist Critical Theory : Peminist Critical Theory
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (363 pages)
Contents ""Cover""; ""Pinay Power""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Toward a Peminist Theory, or Theorizing the Filipina/American Experience""; ""I Identity and Decolonization""; ""1 A Personal Story: On Becoming a Split Filipina Subject""; ""2 Not Just My Closet: Exposing Familial, Cultural, and Imperial Skeletons""; ""3 Fictions of Assimilation: Nancy Drew, Cultural Imperialism, and the Filipina/American Experience""
""4 “This Is Not Your Mother�s Catholic Church�: When Filipino Catholic Spirituality Meets American Culture""""II (Re)Writing Peminist Sociohistory""; ""5 Asian American History: Reflections on Imperialism, Immigration, and “The Body�""; ""6 Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers and the International Division of Reproductive Labor""; ""7 Beauty Queens, Bomber Pilots, and Basketball Players: Second-Generation Filipina Americans in Stockton, California, 1930s to 1950s""; ""III Peminist (Dis)Engagements with Feminism""; ""8 Pinayism""
""9 Filipino American Men: Comrades in the Filipina/o American Feminism Movement""""10 Feminism across Our Generations""; ""IV Theorizing Desire: Sexuality, Community, and Activism""; ""11 Tomboy, Dyke, Lezzie, and Bi: Filipina Lesbian and Bisexual Women Speak Out""; ""12 Deflowering the Sampaguita""; ""13 The Long Road Ahead""; ""V Talking Back: Peminist Interventions in Cyberspace and the Academy""; ""14 Creating NewFilipina.com and the Rise of CyberPinays""; ""15 Ain�t I a Filipino (Woman)?: An Analysis of Authorship/ Authority through the Construction of Filipino/Filipina on the Net""
""16 “A-walkin� fo� de (Rice) Kake�: A Filipina American Feminist�s Adventures in Academia, or A Pinay�s Progress""""17 Not White Enough, Not Filipino Enough: A Young Mestiza�s Journey""; ""VI Peminist Cultural Production""; ""18 Sino Ka? Ano Ka?: Contemporary Art by Eight Filipina American Artists""; ""19 Theory in/of Practice: Filipina American Feminist Filmmaking""; ""20 Resisting Appropriation and Assimilation via (a)eromestizaje and Radical Performance Art Practice""; ""21 The Herstory of Bamboo Girl Zine""
""22 Through Our Pinay Writings: Narrating Trauma, Embodying Recovery""""23 Filipinas “Living in a Time of War�""; ""Contributors""; ""Permissions""; ""Index""
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Subject Critical theory.
Feminism -- United States
Feminist theory -- United States
Filipino American women -- Intellectual life
Filipino American women -- Social conditions
critical theories (dialectical critiques)
critical theory (sociological concept)
Feminist theory
Feminism
Critical theory
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203955819
0203955811