WGST320

Active

BINT: GenEd-Breadth/Interdisciplinar, DVIT: GenEd-Diversity International, DVUS: GenEd-Diversity US, EMWO: Major-Women's/Gender Elective, ENWO: Minor-Women's/Gender Elective, GLC: GenEd-Global Challenges, PPD: GenEd-Power/Privilege/Diff, MWOM: Major-Women's and Gender Stud, NWOM: Minor-Women's and Gender Stud

Examines the literary constructions of Asian American women’s identity in relation to the U.S. nation state and investigates Asian American histories, bodies, identities, diasporic communities, representations, and politics through multi- and interdisciplinary approaches. Asks such questions as: How have the figures of the tiger mother, the Asian nerd, the rice queen, the trafficked woman, the geisha, the war bride, emerged to represent Asian American women, and how have Asian American feminists responded to these problematic racial stereotypes? How does the scholarship illuminate historical and contemporary configurations of gender, sexuality, race, class, nation, citizenship, migration, empire, war, neoliberalism and globalization as they relate to the lives of Asian American women.

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