Gender and Representation of Asian Women

Soh, C. Sarah. The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan. University of Chicago Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780226767772.

Constable, Nicole. Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and “Mail Order” Marriages . University of California Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780520238701.

SES #: 1 · TOPICS: Introduction to course goals, organization, and syllabus · READINGS and screenings: No readings

Said, Edward W. “Introduction.” In Orientalism . Vintage, 1979. ISBN: 9780394740676.

Prasso, Sheridan. “The Real Memoirs of a Geisha.” In The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, and our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient . Pp. 200-223. ISBN: 9781586482145.

Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” In Visual and Other Pleasures . Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 14-38. ISBN: 9781403992468.

———. “Educating Desire in Colonial Southeast Asia: Foucault, Freud, and Imperial Sexualities.” In Sites of Desire Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific . Edited by Lenore Manderson and Margaret Jolly. University of Chicago Press, 1997, pp. 27-48. ISBN: 9780226503042.

Manderson, Lenore. “Parables of Imperialism and Fantasies of the Exotic: Western Representations of Thailand—Place and Sex.” In Sites of Desire Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific . Edited by Lenore Manderson and Margaret Jolly. University of Chicago Press, 1997, pp. 123-145. ISBN: 9780226503042.

Chatterjee, Partha. “The Nation and Its Women.” In The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories . Princeton University Press, 1993, pp. 116-135. ISBN: 9780691019437.

Prasso, Sheridan. “The Other Side of Miss Saigon.” In The Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, and our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient . ISBN: 9781586482145.

Heung, Marina Heung. “The Family Romance of Orientalism: From Madame Butterfly to Indochine.” In Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film. Edited By Matthew Bernstein and Gaylyn Studlar. Rutgers University Press, 1997, pp. 158-184. ISBN: 9780813522951.

Sunindyo, Saraswati. “Murder, Gender and the Media.” In Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia . Edited by Laurie J. Sears. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996, pp. 120-139. ISBN: 9780822316961.

Kim, Elaine H. “‘Bad Women’: Asian American Visual Artists Hanh Ohi Pham, Hung Liu, and Young Soon Min.” Feminist Studies 22, no. 3 (1996): 573-602.

SES #: 7 · TOPICS: The Comfort Women · READINGS and screenings: Soh, C. Sarah. The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan . University of Chicago Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780226767772.

Soh, C. Sarah. The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan . University of Chicago Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780226767772.

Shimizu, Celine Parenas. “The Sexual Bonds of Racial Stardom: Asian American Femme Fatale in Hollywood.” In The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian American Women on Screen and Scene . Duke University Press, 2007, pp. 58-102. ISBN: 9780822340331.

Chang, Grace. “The Global Trade in Filipina Workers.” In Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breath Fire . South End Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780896085756.

Lowie, Miriam. “Breaking the Cycle.” In Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breath Fire . South End Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780896085756.

Chin, Christina, et al. “Without a Trace, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Prime-Time Television.” In Contemporary Asian America . Edited by Min Zhou and J. V. Gatewood. NYU Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780814797136.

Lee, Robert. “The Cold War Origins of the Model Minority Myth.” Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture . Temple University Press, 1999. ISBN: 9781566397537.

Steedly, Mary. “Someone Else is Speaking.” In Hanging Without a Rope . Princeton University Press, 1993, pp. 174-202. ISBN: 9780691094618.

Tsing, Anna. “Riding, Writing.” In In the Realm of the Diamond Queen . Princeton University Press, 1993, pp. 231-252. ISBN: 9780691000510.

Heng, G., and J. Devan. “State Fatherhood: The Politics of Nationalism, Sexuality, and Race in Singapore.” In Nationalism and Sexualities . Edited by Andrew Parker, et al. Routledge, 1992, pp. 343-357. ISBN: 9780415904339.

SES #: 11 · TOPICS: Romance on a Global Stage · READINGS and screenings: Constable, Nicole. Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and “Mail Order” Marriages . University of California Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780520238701.

SES #: 12 · TOPICS: Romance on a Global Stage (cont.) · READINGS and screenings: Constable, Nicole. Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and “Mail Order” Marriages . University of California Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780520238701.