"Looking Behind the Curtain": A (re)understanding of Asian-American femininity via intergenerational narratives

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Abstract

Within this presentation I present research conducted on Asian-American women living in Chicago in order to highlight the ways in which hegemonic understandings of “Asianness” and “Femininity” in the contemporary U.S. are being constructed, and thus must be deconstructed within anti-racist, feminist scholarship. The research, which includes fifteen Asian-American women between the ages of eighteen and twenty five, recasts a feminist gaze upon the intricacies and intimate moments within intergenerational relationships. Through this discussion on intergenerational communication patterns and relationships, a new understanding of how gender and race is “taught” and “performed” by parents of Asian-American women is generated.

Presenter

• Andi Remoquillo, University of Texas, Austin