Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory, Melinda de Jesus

PINAY POWER : Peminist Critical Theory:
Theorizing the Filipina/American Experience
Edited by Melinda L. de Jesús

Published by Routledge Press in March 2005

Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory is the first collection of peminist (Filipina American feminist) cultural criticism by and about Filipina Americans. This groundbreaking volume of essays brings together work by Pinays of different generations and varying political perspectives to chart the history of the Filipina American experience."--Provided by publisher.

2004: 6x9": 464 pp
ISBN: 0415949823 (hardback $95.00: alk. paper)
0415949831 (pbk $27.95. : alk. paper)

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Advance Reviews “The personal is political and the political is personal in this wide-ranging and readable collection that traces the topographies of Filipina subjectivity and sisterhood. Artists, scholars, and activists talk about why and how they work and how they read the world, about mestizaje, labor, love, faith, and art. Melinda de Jesús is a deft and judicious conductor of this symphony of resonant voices: there's something for everyone in Pinay Power.” —Elaine H. Kim, co-editor of Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women "Pinay Power: Peminist Critical Theory is an exceptional scholarly achievement with innovative analysis and provocative insights. This imaginative collection expands our understanding of the Filipina/American experience in a geopolitical context. It is remarkably bold, capturing what it means to be engaged in self-definition and -representation. From a multiplicity of voices, it counters essentialist misperceptions and offers incisive critiques of feminist theories." —Linda Trinh Võ, University of California, Irvine, author of Mobilizing an Asian American Community and co-editor of Asian American Women: The "Frontiers" Reader	“A welcome addition to the increasing list of works on Asian American cultural studies, Pinay Power introduces us in this comprehensive collection of essays to a new enabling concept, peminism, or Filipino/Filipino-American feminist solidarity. Inclusive, incisive, scholarly and autobiographical, the 23 chapters—on art, technology, academia, lesbianism and bisexuality, performance art, film, etc—treat an exciting range of familiar and original issues, on spilt subjectivity, mixed race identities, generational differences and more." —Shirley Geok-lin Lim, author of Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands


I. Identity and Decolonization	IV. Theorizing Desire: Sexuality, Community, and Activism
II. Re/Writing Peminist Sociohistory	V. Talking Back: Peminist Interventions in Cyberspace and the Academy
III. Peminist Dis/Engagements with Feminism	VI. Peminist Cultural Production
	Artwork/Illustrations

Table of Contents

Introduction: “Toward a Peminist Theory, or Theorizing the Filipina/American Experience”

I. Identity and Decolonization

Chapter 1: Leny Mendoza Strobel. “A Personal Story: On Being a Split Filipino Subject”

Chapter 2: Linda M. Pierce. “Not Just My Closet: Exposing Familial, Cultural, and Imperial Skeletons”

Chapter 3: Melinda L. de Jesús. “Fictions of Assimilation: Nancy Drew, Cultural Imperialism, and the Filipina/American Experience”

Chapter 4: Rachel A. Bundang. “‘This Is Not Your Mother’s Catholic Church:’ When Filipino Catholic Spirituality Meets American Culture”

II. Re/Writing Peminist Sociohistory

Chapter 5: Catherine Ceniza Choy. “Asian American History: Reflections on Imperialism, Immigration, and ‘The Body’”

Chapter 6: Rhacel Salazar Parreñas. “Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers and the International Division of Reproductive Labor”

Chapter 7: Dawn Bohulano Mabalon. “Beauty Queens, Bomber Pilots, and Basketball Players: Second Generation Filipina Americans in Stockton, California, 1930s to 1950s”

III. Peminist Dis/Engagements with Feminism

Chapter 8: Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales. “Pinayism”

Chapter 9: Frank Samson. “Filipino American Males: Comrades in the Filipina/o American Feminism Movement”

Chapter 10: Delia Aguilar and Karin Aguilar-San Juan. “Feminism across Our Generations”

IV. Theorizing Desire: Sexuality, Community, and Activism

Chapter 11: Christine T. Lipat, Trinity A. Ordona, Cianna Pamintuan Stewart, and Mary Ann Ubaldo. “Tomboy, Dyke, Lezzi and Bi: Filipina Lesbian and Bisexual Women Speak Out”

Chapter 12: M. Evelina Galang. “Deflowering the Sampaguita”

Chapter 13: Trinity A. Ordona. “The Long Road Ahead”

V. Talking Back: Peminist Interventions in Cyberspace and the Academy

Chapter 14: Perla Paredes Daly. “Creating New.Filipina.com and the Rise of Cyber Pinays”

Chapter 15: Emily Noelle Ignacio. “‘Ain’t I a Filipino (Woman)?’: An Analysis of Authorship/Authority through the Construction of Filipino/Filipina on the Net”

Chapter 16: Melinda L. de Jesús. “‘A walkin’ fo’ de (Rice)kake’: A Filipina-American Feminist’s Adventures in Academia or A Pinay’s Progress”

Chapter 17: Michelle R. Watts. “Not White Enough, Not Pilipino Enough: A Young Mestiza’s Journey”

VI. Peminist Cultural Production

Chapter 18: Victoria Alba. “Sino Ka? Ano Ka?’: Contemporary Art by Eight Filipina American Artists”

Chapter 19: Celine Parreñas Shimizu. “Theory in/of Practice: Filipina American Feminist Filmmaking”

Chapter 20: Gigi Otálvaros-Hormillosa. “Resisting Appropriation and Assimilation via (a)eromestizaje and Performance Art Practice”

Chapter 21: Sabrina Margarita Alcántara-Tan. “The Herstory of Bamboo Girl ’Zine”

Chapter 22: Marie-Therese Sulit. “Through Our Pinay Writings: Narrating Trauma, Embodying Recovery”

Chapter 23: Neferti Xina M. Tadiar. “Filipinas: ‘Living in a Time of War’”

List of Illustrations

1. Screenshot of NewFilipina.com

2. Eliza O. Barrios. “Solemn” (detail), 1996.

3. Terry Acebo Davis. “Dahil Sa Iyo,” 1995.

4. Reanne Agustin Estrada, “VII: One Hundred Thirty Six” (detail), 1998.

5. Johanna Poethig, “Babaylan Barbie,” 1997.

6. Stephanie Syjuco, “Ink Blot (Corner),” 1997.

7. Catherine Wagner, “-86 Degree Freezers” (12 Areas of Concern and Crisis), 1995.

8. Jenifer K. Wofford, “Sleeveless,” 1997.

9. Mail Order Brides/ M.O.B, “Have you eaten?” 1998

10. On “The Fact of Asian Women” (2002)

11. Kim Jiang performs “Lucy Liu” near Maiden Lane in San Francisco. From “The Fact of Asian Women” (2002)

12. From Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa’s “Inverted Minstrel”

13. Sabrina Margarita Alcantara-Tan. “A Public Service Announcement from Bamboo Girl”

List of Illustrations
1. Screenshot of NewFilipina.com
2. Eliza O. Barrios. “Solemn” (detail), 1996.
3. Terry Acebo Davis. “Dahil Sa Iyo,” 1995.
4. Reanne Agustin Estrada, “VII: One Hundred Thirty Six” (detail), 1998.
5. Johanna Poethig, “Babaylan Barbie,” 1997.
6. Stephanie Syjuco, “Ink Blot (Corner),” 1997.
7. Catherine Wagner, “-86 Degree Freezers” (12 Areas of Concern and Crisis), 1995.
8. Jenifer K. Wofford, “Sleeveless,” 1997.
9. Mail Order Brides/ M.O.B, “Have you eaten?” 1998
10. On “The Fact of Asian Women” (2002)
11. Kim Jiang performs “Lucy Liu” near Maiden Lane in San Francisco. From “The Fact of Asian Women” (2002)
12. From Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa’s “Inverted Minstrel”
13. Sabrina Margarita Alcantara-Tan. “A Public Service Announcement from Bamboo Girl”

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