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Article: Feminist studies of Asian American literary/cultural studies.
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- Feminist Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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WHAT ARE THE VARIOUS FIGURATIONS of relating the fields of Asian American studies and women's studies/feminist studies? Beyond certain obvious points of commonality and overlap, such as studies of Asian American women and analytical concepts like intersectionality, what are the possibilities for thinking across these knowledge formations? The very naming of the two studies around identity categories has entailed a repeated narration of their founding moments as inhabited by certain foundational subjects named "Asian Americans" and "women." The persistent staging of feminism as a gendered problem in Asian American studies and the parallel staging of racial difference as a ...