Introduction: Moving Beyond “Exotics, Whores, and Nimble Fingers”: Asian American Women in a New Era of Globalization and Resistance
Linda Trinh Võ and Marian Sciachitano
Summoning the Ghosts; Paper Daughter (art)
Wennie Huang
June 23, 1995, San Francisco Airport (poetry)
Lan Duong
Cultural Autobiography, Testimonial, and Asian American Transnational Feminist Coalition in the “Comfort Women of World War II” Conference
Pamela Thoma
Geisha Meets the Twentieth Century; Geisha Rocks to Def Leppard; Pearl Divers; Lady Murasaki Contemplates Plato; Mickey Goes to Tokyo (art)
Elsie Yukiko Sakuma
The Cost of Caring: The Social Reproductive Labor of Filipina Live-In Home Health Caregivers
Charlene Tung
Center, 1999 (poetry)
Kai Jo
De/Colonizing the Exotic: Teaching “Asian Women” in a U.S. Classroom
Piya Chatterjee
Requiem (fiction); Dreaming of the Eighth Year (poetry)
Shirley Ho
My Pink Ao Dai (poetry)
Nhien T. Nguyen
Remembering “the Nation” Through Pageantry: Femininity and the Politics of Vietnamese Womanhood in the Hao Hau Ao Dai Contest
Nhi T. Lieu
Movie Posters: OK for Sex; Fair and Lovely; Dowry; His Fate (art)
Annu P. Matthew
I love Asian Women (poetry)
Rana Chang
The Herstory of Bamboo Girl Zine
Sabrina Margarita Alcantara-Tan
Fence Sitters, Switch Hitters, and Bi-Bi Girls: An Exploration of Hapa and Bisexual Identities
Beverly Yuen Thompson
“My People” (fiction)
Carol Roh-Spaulding
Kalayaan Collection: Fetish; American Child; Fam·i·ly (art)
Zarah De Leon
Like Bamboo: Representations of a Japanese War Bride
Debbie Storrs
Creative Writing (fiction)
Traise Yamamoto