66.035 - Situating the Identities of Asian/American Girls and Women Across Multiple Contexts and Institutional Settings: New Paradigms for Explicating "Gendered" Experiences

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session brings together five Asian/American female scholars whose work focuses on the identity formation and maintenance of Asian/American girls and women across multiple contexts and institutional settings. Specifically, this session focuses on how Asian/American experiences through the lens of gender as a fluid and shifting social construct are expressed and negotiated in institutional spaces including community spaces, early-childhood centers, institutions of higher education, and K-12 schools. We articulate how Asian/American girls and women complicate, perform, and resist gendered and sexualized expectations associated with a variety of racialized assumptions about Asian femininity, gender roles, and identity formation (Lee & Vaught, 2003).

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 4: Social Context of Education Policy, Politics, and Praxis

Chair

• Rachel Endo, Hamline University

Papers

• Intersectional Identities, Disrupted Discourses: Asian American Female Teachers' Classroom Performances - Candace J Chow, University of Utah

• "It Never Ends": How Asian American Female K–12 Teachers Experience Gender and Racial Microaggressions From Initial Licensure Preparation to Their Professional Careers - Rachel Endo, Hamline University

• Identities as a Process: Asian Female Scholars' Identity Formation - Deoksoon Kim, University of South Florida

• How Asian American Girls Create Ibasho/Home at a Community-Based Organization - Tomoko Tokunaga, Keio University

• Parenting and Educating Young Asian American Children to Survive and Thrive: Through the Eyes of an Asian American Mother/Scholar - Judy W. Yu, REACH

Discussant

• Samuel D. Museus, University of Denver