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InvAsian: Asian Sisters Represent
Available through the SF Study Center. $18 plus shipping and handling ($4.50 book rate, or $6 UPS ground or priority mail) plus tax for CA residents. Toll free: 888-281-3757 rumi@studycenter.orgfax: 415-626-7276 InVasian Reviews “Impressively presented collection…A memorable, rewarding and insightful read, InvAsian is a seminal work…highly recommended contribution to Women’s Studies in general and Asian/American […]
Labor Women (2002)
Duration: 30 minutes Directed by: Renee Tajima-Peña The half-hour documentary, Labor Women, is a portrait of three immigrant daughters who are part of a new generation transforming the American labor movement. Quynh Nguyen is a trilingual organizer who moves easily between Vietnamese, Spanish, and English as she mobilizes meatpackers in their demands for a union […]
Making More Waves: New Writings by Asian American Women
Paperback: 340 pages; Publisher: Beacon Press; ISBN: 0807059137; (July 1997) Order from Amazon or Eastwind Books of Berkeley Asian-American women writers of all ages explore a complex range of identities through poetry, fiction, essays, and memoirs, most of which have never been published. The contributors take on little explored topics and expand the limits of […]
Art to Art: Expressions of Asian American Women (1993)
Duration: 30 minutes Directed by: Valerie Soe Four Asian American women filmmakers present vignettes of four Asian American visual artists in a cross-ethnic, cross-genre dialogue about art, gender, and cultural politics.
Making Waves: Writings By and About Asian American Women
Paperback: 481 pages; Publisher: Beacon Press; ASIN: 0807059056; (July 1989) Order from Amazon or Eastwind Books of Berkeley Making Waves: Writings By and About Asian American is one of the first collections of essays, poetry, short fiction, and memoir by and about women of Chinese, Filipina, Japanese, Korean, Southeast Asian and South Asian ancestry. Edited […]
Talking History (1984)
Duration: 30 minutes Directed by: Spencer Nakasako Portraits of five women of different generations, occupations, and ethnic backgrounds, from an elderly Chinese seamstress living in San Francisco Chinatown to a young Hmong mother farming near Fresno.
With Silk Wings
By: Elaine H. Kim and Janice Otani (1983) This book accompanying the With Silk Wings profiles Asian American women with careers considered non-traditional to most Asian Americans, such as writers, actors, politicians, police officers, and carpenters. Sara Ishikawa Patricia Lee Heidi Aekyung Kang Shirley Cachola Sharon Maeda Sook Nam Choo Genevieve Lim Merry Fujihara […]
