Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory. Theorizing the Filipina/American Experience

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Dedication......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Introduction: Toward a Peminist Theory, or Theorizing the Filipina/American Experience*......Page 12
1  A Personal Story: On Becoming a Split Filipina Subject1......Page 27
2  Not Just My Closet: Exposing Familial, Cultural, and Imperial Skeletons......Page 38
3  Fictions of Assimilation: Nancy Drew, Cultural Imperialism, and the Filipina/American Experience......Page 50
4  “This Is Not Your Mother’s Catholic Church”: When Filipino Catholic Spirituality Meets American Culture1......Page 65
5  Asian American History: Reflections on Imperialism, Immigration, and “The Body”......Page 81
6  Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers and the International Division of Reproductive Labor......Page 96
7  Beauty Queens, Bomber Pilots, and Basketball Players: Second-Generation Filipina Americans in Stockton, California, 1930s to 1950s......Page 113
8  Pinayism......Page 130
9  Filipino American Men: Comrades in the Filipina/o American Feminism Movement......Page 141
10  Feminism across Our Generations......Page 157
11  Tomboy, Dyke, Lezzie, and Bi: Filipina Lesbian and Bisexual Women Speak Out......Page 173
12  Deflowering the Sampaguita......Page 185
13  The Long Road Ahead......Page 193
14  Creating NewFilipina.com and the Rise of CyberPinays......Page 201
15  Ain’t I a Filipino (Woman)?: An Analysis of Authorship/Authority through the Construction of Filipino/Filipina on the Net......Page 218
16  “A-walkin’ fo’ de (Rice) Kake”: A Filipina American Feminist’s Adventures in Academia, or A Pinay’s Progress......Page 236
17  Not White Enough, Not Filipino Enough: A Young Mestiza’s Journey......Page 250
18  Sino Ka? Ano Ka?: Contemporary Art by Eight Filipina American Artists......Page 263
19  Theory in/of Practice: Filipina American Feminist Filmmaking......Page 281
20  Resisting Appropriation and Assimilation via (a)eromestizaje and Radical Performance Art Practice......Page 296
21  The Herstory of Bamboo Girl Zine......Page 308
22  Through Our Pinay Writings: Narrating Trauma, Embodying Recovery......Page 315
23  Filipinas “Living in a Time of War ”......Page 335
Contributors......Page 346
Permissions......Page 351
Index......Page 352