The hypersexuality of race [electronic resource] : performing Asian/American women on screen and scene / Celine Parreñas Shimizu.

In The Hypersexuality of Race, Celine Parreñas Shimizu urges a shift in thinking about sexualized depictions of Asian/American women in film, video, and theatrical productions. Shimizu advocates moving beyond denunciations of sexualized representations of Asian/American women as necessarily demeanin...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Duke)
Main Author: Shimizu, Celine Parreñas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • The hypersexuality of Asian/American women : toward a politically productive perversity on screen and scene
  • The bind of representation : performing and consuming hypersexuality in Miss Saigon
  • The sexual bonds of racial stardom : Asian American femme fatales in Hollywood
  • Racial threat or racial treat? Performing yellowface sex acts in stag films, 1920/34
  • Queens of anal, double, triple, and the gangbang : producing Asian/American
  • Feminism in pornography, 1940s/1990s
  • "Little brown fucking machines powered by rice" or sex tourists with movie
  • Cameras and prostitutes without movie cameras : politicizing the bottom in Southeast Asian sex tourist movies
  • The political power of hypersexuality in Asian American feminist films
  • New horizons in race-positive sexuality.