Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory : Theorizing the Filipina/American ExperienceMelinda L. De Jesus "Pinay Power : Peminist Critical Theory is a collection of peminist (Filipina American feminist) cultural criticism by and about Filipina Americans. It features essays by female scholars and writers who tackle issues such as gender, decolonization, globalization, transnationalism, identity, sexuality, representation and spirituality. It also features examples of peminist artwork."--Provided by publisher. |
Contents
A Personal Story On Becoming a Split Filipina Subject | 19 |
Not Just My Closet Exposing Familial Cultural and Imperial Skeletons | 31 |
Fictions of Assimilation Nancy Drew Cultural Imperialism and the FilipinaAmerican Experience | 45 |
This Is Not Your Mothers Catholic Church When Filipino Catholic Spirituality Meets American Culture | 61 |
ReWriting Feminist Sociohistory | 79 |
Asian American History Reflections on Imperialism Immigration and The Body | 81 |
Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers and the International Division of Reproductive Labor | 99 |
Beauty Queens Bomber Pilots and Basketball Players SecondGeneration Filipina Americans in Stockton California 1930s to 1950s | 117 |
Talking Back Feminist Interventions in Cyberspace and the Academy | 219 |
Creating NewFilipinacom and the Rise of CyberPinays | 221 |
Aint I a Filipino Woman? An Analysis of AuthorshipAuthority through the Construction of FilipinoFilipina on the Net | 239 |
Awalkin fo de Rice Kake A Filipina American Feminists Adventures in Academia or A Pinays Progress | 259 |
Not White Enough Not Filipino Enough A Young Mestizas Journey | 275 |
Feminist Cultural Production | 289 |
Sino Ka? Ano Ka? Contemporary Art by Eight Filipina American Artists | 291 |
Theory inof Practice Filipina American Feminist Filmmaking | 309 |
Peminist DisEngagements with Feminism | 135 |
Pinayism | 137 |
Filipino American Men Comrades in the Filipinao American Feminism Movement | 149 |
Feminism across Our Generations | 167 |
Theorizing Desire Sexuality Community and Activism | 185 |
Tomboy Dyke Lezzie and Bi Filipina Lesbian and Bisexual Women Speak Out | 187 |
Deflowering the Sampaguita | 201 |
The Long Road Ahead | 211 |
Resisting Appropriation and Assimilation via aeromestizaje and Radical Performance Art Practice | 327 |
The Herstory of Bamboo Girl Zine | 341 |
Through Our Pinay Writings Narrating Trauma Embodying Recovery | 351 |
Filipinas Living in a Time of War | 373 |
Contributors | 387 |
Permissions | 392 |
Index | 393 |
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Page 9 - The new mestiza copes by developing a tolerance for contradictions, a tolerance for ambiguity. She learns to be an Indian in Mexican culture, to be Mexican from an Anglo point of view. She learns to juggle cultures. She has a plural personality, she operates in a pluralistic mode — nothing is thrust out, the good the bad and the ugly, nothing rejected, nothing abandoned.
Page 9 - ... tolerance for ambiguity. She learns to be an Indian in Mexican culture, to be Mexican from an Anglo point of view. She learns to juggle cultures. She has a plural personality, she operates in a pluralistic mode — nothing is thrust out, the good the bad and the ugly, nothing rejected, nothing abandoned. Not only does she sustain contradictions, she turns the ambivalence into something else.
Page 8 - ... our entire contemporary social system has little by little begun to lose its capacity to retain its own past, has begun to live in a perpetual present and in a perpetual change that obliterates traditions of the kind which all earlier social formations have had in one way or another to preserve.