Comments | oyceter: Shah, Sonia, ed. - Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire

oyceter

Shah, Sonia, ed. - Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire

Mar 08, 2009 01:16

This is a collection of essays by Asian-American feminists about Asian-American feminists (with the "American" indicating the US, although there is one that focuses on Canadian healthcare). From my recollection, the range seems fairly large-there were quite a few essays on lower-class women and I think the essays spanned a good range of ages, ( Read more... )

race/ethnicity/culture: asian-ness, class, books: non-fiction, books, race/ethnicity/culture, a: shah sonia, feminism

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hysteriachan March 8 2009, 13:05:16 UTC

I found this book so personally necessary and so comforting that I have no idea how useful this write up will be to anyone who's not me. Still, recommended!

Well, you certainly made me want to read it. ^_^ (Alas, this book breaks the pleasant trend I've had recently of looking up your book recs in my library system and actually finding them, but it's on my to-read list now.)

oyceter March 13 2009, 22:39:08 UTC

Thank you! Also, I hope you manage to find it soon!

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oyceter March 13 2009, 22:39:48 UTC

Oh, awesome! Am adding Growing Up Asian in Australia to my list now.

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oyceter March 16 2009, 23:15:21 UTC

Boo to the "saving" comment, but yay for personal resonance and a mix of people!

coffeeandink March 9 2009, 13:02:13 UTC

I really liked the article on the Indian women's movement against domestic violence in rural villages that grew out of women applying to domestic violence that same strategies they'd applied to British colonization. Vandana Singh mentioned the same movement in her recent Aqueduct interview -- I am blanking on the name ( ... )

oyceter March 13 2009, 22:58:19 UTC

eta: Sorry, didn't address your post at all. So, obviously, I do not have the kind of personal connection to the book you did!

No, not a problem! I want to talk about the crunchy thinky stuff in the book as well, but thanks to a) time passing before I wrote it up and b) emotional reaction, I could not think of anything.

I either missed most of the essays addressing the UK and Canada, or I simply forgot which ones they were. Though I did get the sense that the book was more international than I had been expecting from -American stuff.

And I was very pleased to see how many South Asians were represented in the book (yay Sonia Shah editing!), and doubly pleased to see so many essays that went from the US to the country people's families were from and etc. Though I am not sure how many Southeast Asians were represented, huh....