Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Asian-American Women's History

50 Links, Flix, Tunes, and Reads by, for, and about Asian-American Women

Newest Titles | Millennium | Nineties | Classics | Other Media | Links

In the I-can-never-find-anything-good-to-read section of the more-than-you-can-shake-a-stick-at department: AAV's editors present the incredibly-huge-but-by-no-means-exhaustive listing of titles available at Amazon and elsewhere by, for, and about APA women.  We were looking for a single recent book whose title we couldn't remember and en route encountered such a dazzling array and dizzying number of works -- from scholarly tomes to self-help guides, from the professional to the poetic, from music CDs to VHS movies -- we thought we'd share just a surface sampling (!) of them with you. If that's not enough, we provide at the end a list of resource and organization links that will keep you busy pretty much until Women's History Month next year.  Enjoy and, umm...good luck!

Newest Titles

Coming Soon! The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the Transformation of American Orientalism by Karen J. Leong (July 15, 2005)

New! Violence Against Women in Asian Societies by Lenore Manderson, Linda Rae Bennett (Editors) (2005)

New! Filthy Fictions: Asian American Literature by Women by Monica Chiu (Editor) (2004)

New! Asian American Women: The Frontiers Reader by Linda Trinh Vo, et al. (Editors) (2004)

Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech by Patti Duncan (2004)

The Legend of Fire Horse Woman by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (2003)

Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology
Shirley Hune and Gail M. Nomura (Editors) (2003)

Asian American Women : Issues, Concerns, and Responsive Human and Civil Rights Advocacy by Lora Jo Foo (Author) (2003)

Anna Chennault: Informal Diplomacy and Asian Relations (Biographies in American Foreign Policy, No. 8) by Catherine Forslund (2002)

Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women by Hyun Yi Kang, Duke Univ. Press (2002)

Edith and Winifred Eaton: Chinatown Missions and Japanese Romances (The Asian American Experience) by Dominika Ferens, Univ. of Illinois Press (May 2002)

Yell-Oh Girls!: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American by Vickie Nam (Editor) (2001)

Onoto Watanna: The Story of Winnifred Eaton (The Asian American Experience) by Diana Birchall (2001)

Holding Up More Than Half the Sky : Chinese Women Garnment Workers in New York City 1948-92 (The Asian American Experience) by Xiaolan Bao, Roger Daniels (2001)

Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion : Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women's Literature by Leslie Bow (2001)

 

Millenium

Babaylan : An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina American Writers by Nick Carbo, Eileen Tabios (Editors) (2000)

Assimilating Asians : Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America (New Americanists) by Patricia P. Chu (2000)

Work Roles, Gender Roles, and Asian Indian Immigrant Women in the United States (Women's Studies, Vol 22) by Arpana Sircar (2000)

Black Candle : Poems About Women from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (2000)

Relationships Among Asian American Women by Jean Lau Chin (Editor) (2000)

Disposable Domestics : Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy by Grace Chang, Mimi Abramovitz (2000)

Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton : A Literary Biography (The Asian American Experience) by Annette White-Parks, Roger Daniels (2000)

 

Nineties

Warrior Lessons: An Asian American Woman's Journey into Power by Phoebe Eng (1999)

Maxine Hong Kingston's the Woman Warrior: A Casebook by Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong (Editor) (1999)

If They Don't Bring Their Women Here : Chinese Female Immigration Before Exclusion (The Asian American Experience) by George Anthony Peffer, Roger Daniels (1999)

Masking Selves, Making Subjects : Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body by Traise Yamamoto (1999)

Leaving Deep Water : Asian American Women at the Crossroads of Two Cultures by Claire S. Chow (1999)

Emerging Voices : South Asian American Women Redefine Self, Family, and Community by Sangeeta Gupta (Editor) (1999)

From the Promised Land to Home : Trajectories of Selfhood in Asian-American Women's Autobiography (Woman in History, 83) by Jid Lee (1998)

A Patchwork Shawl : Chronicles of South Asian Women in America by Shamita Das Dasgupta (Editor) (1998)

Mothering, Education, and Ethnicity : The Transformation of Japanese American Culture (Asian Americans: Reconceptualizing Culture, History, Politics) by Susan Matoba Adler (1998)

Amy Tan by E. D. Huntley (1998)

Conversations With Maxine Hong Kingston (Literary Conversations Series by Maxine Hong Kingston, et al (1998)

Asian American Women and Gender: A Reader (Asians in America: The Peoples of East, Southeast, and South Asia in American Life and Culture) by Franklin Ng (Editor) (1998)

Dragon Ladies : Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire by Sonia Shah (Editor) (1997)

Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora : Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (1997)

Making More Waves : New Writing by Asian American Women by Elaine H. Kim (Editor), et al (1997)

The Asian American Woman : Social, Economic & Political Conditions (Contemporary Social Issues a Bibliographic Series Vol. 48) by Joan Nordquist (Editor) (1997)

Asian American Women and Men : Labor, Laws, and Love (Gender Lens Series , Vol 1) by Yen Le Espiritu (1996)

Images of Asian American Women by Asian American Women Writers (Many Voices, Vol. 1) by Esther Mikyung Ghymn (1996)

In Her Mother's House : The Politics of Asian American Mother-Daughter Writing (Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans, 6) by Wendy Ho (Textbook Binding) (1995)

Talking Black : Lesbians of African and Asian Descent Speak Out (Women on Women) by Valerie Mason-John (Editor) (1995)

Her Mother's Ashes : And Other Stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the United States by Nurjehan Aziz (Editor) (1995)

The Very Inside : An Anthology of Writings by Asia and Pacific Islander Lesbians and Bisexual Women by Sharon Lim-Hing (Editor) (1994)

Child of War, Woman of Peace by Le Ly Hayslip, et al (January 1994)

Home to Stay : Asian American Women's Fiction by Sylvia Watanabe (Editor), Carol Bruchac (Editor) (1994)

Our Feet Walk the Sky : Women of the South Asian Diaspora by Women of South Asian Descent Collective (Editor) (1993)

Articulate Silences : Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa (Reading Women Writing) by King-Kok Cheung, King-Kok Cheung (1993)

The Politics of Life : Four Plays by Asian American Women (Asian American History and Culture) by Velina Hasu Houston (Editor), et al (1993)

Unbroken Thread : An Anthology of Plays by Asian American Women by Roberta Uno (Editor) (1993)

 

Classics

The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, et al (1991)

Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings by and About Asian American Women (Asian American Studies/Women's Studies) by Diane Yen-Mei Wong, et al (1989)

With Silk Wings : Asian American Women at Work by Elaine Kim (1983)

 

Other Media

Picture Bride (1995) by Kayo Hatto (Director)

Joy Luck Club (1993) by Wayne Wang (Director)

Holding up Half the Sky - Voices of Asian Women by Various Artists, Music CD (1999)

Holding Up Half The Sky: Women's Voices From Around The World [BOX SET] by Various Artists, Music CD (1997)

Voices of Diversity - Maxine Hong Kingston, Wall Poster, 17x11 by Art.com

Great Asian Americans Wall Poster Series - Kristi Yamaguchi, 17x22 by Art.com

 

 

Asian-American Women's Books & Media @ Amazon or do your own search

Not Enough?

• Asian American Women Artists Association (Arts)
• AsianGurls (Under construction)
• AsianMs: Goldsea (Beauty/Fitness)
• Asian Pacific American Women's Leadership Institute (Leadership training, networking)
• Asian Pacific Women's Center, Inc (Los Angeles, domestic violence activism)
• Asian Women in Business (Business networking)
• Bread & Roses Women of Hope Series (Inspirational Posters [!])
• National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (Feminist activism)
• National Asian Women's Health Organization (Health)
• Sakhi (New York, domestic violence activism)
• South Asian Women for Action (Boston activism)
• South Asian Women's NETwork (Online resource)