Asian American Women

I took this course taught by Juana Chen back in summer 2003 talking about Asian American women... it was quite a fun study! Though will dispose the book, wanna list out the articles contained.


1. The World of Our Grandmothers: Connie Young Yu
2. Voices from the Past: Why They Came: Dorothy Cordova
3. Growing Up Asian, Growing Up American: Claire S. Chow
4. The Common Elements of Oppression (Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism?)
5. Race, Class and Gender in Asian America: Yen Le Espiritu
6. Deja Vu: Teresa Watanabe
7. My Mother's Purple Dress: Evelyn Lee and Gloria Oberst
8. Chinese-American Silence: Maxine Hong Kingston
9. Two Kinds: Amy Tan
10. My Family, My Gang: Lilia V. Villanueva
11. The Korean American Family: Pyong Gap Min
12. The Business of Selling Mail-Order Brides: Venny Villapando
13. Domestic Violence Among Pacific Asian: Nilda Rimonte
14. Long-awaited Abortion Pill Will Offer More Privacy-but no less controversy: Stacey Schultz
15. The Brilliance of Diamonds: Nora Okja Keller
16. Adopted: Janine Bishop
17. Onefre's Happy Romance: Jeff Tagami
18. Love Letters from the Movement: Ann Yuri Uyeda
19. Cloth.... Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
20. Dowry Too High. Lose Bride and Go to Jail: James Brooke
21. The New Face of Race: with Arian Campo-Flores, Vern E. Smith, Karen Breslau, Allison Samuels and Lynette Clemetson
22. Still Searching for Acceptance: Duane Noriyuki
23. "Opening" Faces - The Politics of Cosmetic Surgery and Asian American Women: Eugenia Kaw
24. Yes, She's a Model - No, She Isn't a Size One: Lisa Richardson
25. Black Women and a New Definition of Womanhood: Bart Landry
26. "Bad Women": Asian American Visual Artists: Elaine H. Kim
27. These Dark Satanic Mills: William Greider
28. Kalpana Chawla (India Mourns Space Heroine)
29. She Knows Courtroom Drama: Y. Jessie Shaw
30. Why So Few Asian American Teacher?: Gerald W. Bracey