Women of Color and Feminism: Seal Studies (Seal Studies (Unnumbered))

In this Seal Studies title, author and professor Maythee Rojas offers a look at the intricate crossroads of being a woman of color. Women of Color and Feminism tackles the question of how women of color experience feminism, and how race and socioeconomics can alter this experience. Rojas explores the feminist woman of color's identity and how it relates to mainstream culture and feminism. Featuring profiles of historical women of color (including Hottentot Venus, Josefa Loaiza, and Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash), a discussion of the arts, and a vision for developing a feminist movement built on love and community healing, Rojas examines the intersectional nature of being a woman of color and a feminist. Covering a range of topics, including sexuality, gender politics, violence, stereotypes, and reproductive rights, Women of Color and Feminism offers a far-reaching view of this multilayered identity. This powerful study strives to rewrite race and feminism, encouraging women to "take back the body" in a world of new activism. Women of Color and Feminism encourages a broad conversation about race, class, and gender and creates a discourse that brings together feminism and racial justice movements.

Shout Out was born of the hope that exists when women reach out to one another. Included are critical examinations, creative nonfiction, and poetry that explore a range of responses to the injustices that women worldwide sustain in their daily lives: physical abuse, murder, rape, poverty, and psychological terror.

Many of the contributors are living proof of the remarkable and inspiring work that individuals and organizations are doing to end war, rape, murder, slavery, sex trade, domestic violence, poverty, and other forms of oppression. Others chose to share their struggles, pain, and knowledge in order to educate and change the way women are maltreated.

Shout Out seeks to answer many questions, among them: How do so many women survive the violence of their daily lives? Where do they find hope? How can this violence still occur? This work gives voice to women whose stories are equally important they are difficult to fathom. The goal of collecting these expressions together is to open the dialogue and acknowledge the wrongdoing, and in so doing find out how we might enact change.

Publishers Weekly

This distressing anthology-equal parts manifesto, testimony and manual-gathers over 40 scholarly essays, spoken word pieces, poems and short memoirs about "war, rape, murder, atrocities, slavery, sex trade, domestic violence, poverty, and other forms of oppression" faced by women of color around the globe. The first section of this neatly structured collection addresses domestic violence in the United States; the second shifts to the international sphere, while the third focuses on state-sanctioned and military violence against women. The heavily personal fourth section segues to an action-oriented concluding chapter. Particularly noteworthy is the original research of Hosai Ehsan's "The Prevalence of Domestic Violence in Afghan Households" and of Nandini Gunewardena's "Hidden Transcripts: Women's Suicide as Resistance in Sri Lanka." Sharmila Lodhia offers a fresh perspective in "Selective Storytelling: A Critique of U.S. Media Coverage Regarding Violence Against Indian Women," as does Dai Sil Kim-Gibson in "'Comfort Women Want Justice, Not Comfort." Activists provide useful, practical advice (e.g., Nalini Shekar and Mukta Sharangpani's "Culture and Truth: Learning from a Transatlantic Trafficking Case." This highly personal and political anthology will unsettle, inform and inspire feminists in particular. Artwork not seen by PW. (Jan.)

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Offers Various Perspectives(catholic Cuban-colombian And Pakstani Muslim) Of Life Lived As Young Feminists Of Color, Exploring Commonalities And Cultural Differences And Examining Macho Cultures And American Capitalism. Explores Four Major Themes: Family And Community; Mothers;cultural Customs; And Talking Back To White Feminists, Men, Mothers, Liberals, And Others. Foreword / Cherríe Moraga -- Introduction / Bushra Rehman And Daisy Hernández -- Browngirlworld : Queergirlofcolor Organizing, Sistahood, Heartbreak / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-samarasinha -- Colonize This! / Cristina Tzintzún -- Organizing 101 : A Mixed-race Feminist In Movements For Social Justice / Lisa Weiner-mahfuz -- Man Of The House / Juleyka Lantigua -- What Happens When Your Hood Is The Last Stop On The White Flight Express / Taigi Smith -- Hiv And Me : The Chicana Version / Stella Luna -- Love Feminism But Where's My Hip Hop? : Shaping A Black Feminist Identity / Gwendolyn D. Pough -- Black Feminism In Everyday Life : Race, Mental Illness, Poverty And Motherhood / Siobhan Brooks -- In Praise Of Difficult Chicas : Feminism And Feminity / Adriana López -- Love Clinic / Soyon Im -- Dutiful Hijas : Dependency, Power And Guilt / Erica González Martínez -- Femme-inism : Lessons Of My Mother / Paula Austin -- Feminist Musings On The No. 3 Train / Lourdes-marie Prophete -- Thirty-eight / Cecilia Ballí -- Chappals And Gym Shorts : An Indian Muslim Woman In The Land Of Oz / Almas Sayeed -- Because You're A Girl / Ijeoma A.-- Bring Us Back Into The Dance : Women Of The Wasase / Kahente Horn-miller -- Ladies Only / Tanmeet Sethi -- I Sold My Soul To Rock And Roll / Kristina Gray -- Lost In The Indophile Translation : A Validation Of My Experience / Bhavana Mody -- Heartbroken : Women Of Color Feminism And The Third Wave / Rebecca Hurdis -- It's Not An Oxymoron : The Search For An Arab Feminism / Susan Muaddi Darraj -- Falling Off The Tightrope Onto A Bed Of Feathers / Darice Jones -- How Sexual Harassment Slaughtered, Then Saved Me / Kiini Ibura Salaam -- Living Outside The Box / Pandora L. Leong -- The Black Beauty Myth / Sirena J. Riley -- Nasaan Ka Anak Ko? A Queer Filipina-american Feminist's Tale Of Abortion And Self-recovery / Patricia Justine Tumang -- Can I Get A Witness? Testimony From A Hip Hop Feminist / Shani Jamila. Edited By Daisy Hernández And Bushra Rehman. Includes Bibliographical References.

While growing up in Versailles, an Indiana farm community, Linda Furiya tried to balance the outside world of Midwestern America with the Japanese traditions of her home life. As the only Asian family in a tiny township, Furiya's life revolved around Japanese food and the extraordinary lengths her parents went to in order to gather the ingredients needed to prepare it.
As immigrants, her parents approached the challenges of living in America, and maintaining their Japanese diets, with optimism and gusto. Furiva, meanwhile, was acutely aware of how food set her apart from her peers: She spent her first day of school hiding in the girls' restroom, examining her rice balls and chopsticks, and longing for a Peanut Bullter and Jelly sandwich.
Bento Box in the Heartland is an insightful and reflective coming-of-age tale. Beautifully written, each chapter is accompanied by a family recipe of mouth-watering Japanese comfort food.

Publishers Weekly

When Furiya started eating lunches in the elementary school cafeteria, she was profoundly embarrassed by the rice balls her mom packed instead of a sandwich like all the other kids ate. She was already feeling self-conscious about being the only Japanese family in her 1960s Indiana hometown, and her parents' insistence on continuing to eat their native cuisine they grew their own vegetables and drove for hours to visit big-city supermarkets that stocked Japanese imports was frustrating because it intensified the differences between her and her classmates. But the exotic dishes were also a source of delight, and Furiya ends each chapter with a recipe for one of her favorite meals. There is more to the story than food, though, and she describes the anger she feels when shopkeepers make fun of her father's accent, or the amazement when her mother takes her back to Japan, with the same vividness she applies to recreating the sensations of her first taste of wasabi. Though she continues to chafe against her parents' emotional reticence, partly inspired by their arranged marriage, Furiya also comes to appreciate the values they handed down to her, and it's this love that dominates her nicely told story. (Jan.)

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Browngirlworld : queergirlofcolor organizing, sistahood, heartbreak / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Colonize this! / Cristina Tzintzún Organizing 101 : a mixed-race feminist in movements for social justice / Lisa Weiner-Muhfuz Man of the house / Juleyka Lantigua What happens when your hood is the last stop on the white flight express / Taigi Smith HIV and me : the chicana version / Stella Luna Love feminism but where's my hip hop? : shaping a black feminist identity / Gwendolyn D. Pough Black feminism in everyday life : race, mental illness, poverty and motherhood / Siobhan Brooks In praise of difficult chicas : feminism and feminity / Adriana López Love clinic / Soyon Im Dutiful hijas : dependency, power and guilt / Erica González Martínez Femme-inism : lessons of my mother / Paula Austin Feminist musings on the no. 3 train / Lourdes-marie Prophete Thirty-eight / Cecilia Ballí Chappals and gym shorts : an Indian Muslim woman in the land of oz / Almas Sayeed "Because you're a girl" / Ijeoma A. Bring us back into the dance : women of the Wasase / Kahente Horn-Miller Ladies only / Tanmeet Sethi I sold my soul to rock and roll / Kristina Gray Lost in the indophile translation : a validation of my experience / Bhavana Mody Heartbroken : women of color feminism and the third wave / Rebecca Hurdis It's not an oxymoron : the search for an Arab feminism / Susan Muaddi Darraj Falling off the tightrope onto a bed of feathers / Darice Jones How sexual harassment slaughtered, then saved me / Kiini Ibura Salaam Living outside the box / Pandora L. Leong The black beauty myth / Sirena J. Riley Nasaan ka anak ko? a queer Filipina-American feminist's tale of abortion and self-recovery / Patricia Justine Tumang Can I get a witness? Testimony from a hip hop feminist / Shani Jamila. It has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the 70s feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from around the globe. Now a new generation of brilliant, outspoken women of color is speaking to the concerns of a new feminism, and their place in it. Daisy Hernandez of Ms. magazine and poet Bushra Rehman have collected a diverse, lively group of emerging writers who speak to their experienceto the strength and rigidity of community and religion, to borders and divisions, both internal and externaland address issues that take feminism into the twenty-first century. One writer describes herself as a mixed brown girl, Sri-Lankan and New England mill-town white trash, and clearly delineates the organizing differences between whites and women of color: We do not kick ass the way the white girls do, in meetings of NOW or riot grrl. For us, its all about family. A Korean-American woman struggles to create her own identity in a traditional community: Yam-ja-neh means nice, sweet, compliant. Ive heard it used many times by my parents friends who dont know shit about me. An Arab-American feminist deconstructs the quaint vision of Middle-Eastern women with which most Americans feel comfortable. This impressive array of first-person accounts adds a much-needed fresh dimension to the ongoing dialogue between race and gender, and gives voice to the women who are creating and shaping the feminism of the future. In Hijas Americanas, Author Rosie Molinary Sheds New Light On What It Means To Grow Up Latina. Drawing Upon Her Own Experiences, As Well As Interviews And Surveys Collected From More Than 500 Latina Women, Molinary Provides A Powerful Understanding Of The Inner Conflicts And Powerful Triumphs Of Latinas. The Women Profiled In This Book Are Caribbean, Mexican, Central American, And South American. These First-, Second-, And Third-generation Latinas Have All Grappled With The Experience Of Coming Of Age Within Not One But Two Cultures -- That Of The United States, And That Of Their Familial Homelands. Hijas Americanas Addresses Experiences That Are Uniquely Female And Latin, Focusing On Themes Of Body Image, Standards Of Beauty, Ethnic Identity, And Sexuality. In Doing So, Molinary Gives Voice To The Struggles And Successes Of Latinas Across Racial, Sexual, And Cultural Identities, Emphasizing That The Challenges Inherent In Growing Up Between Two Cultures Can Positively Shape Latinas' Lives. Introduction : Reconciling Two Realities -- 1. Turning Gringa -- 2. Double Lives -- 3. In The Name Of The Father -- 4. Ay, Mami -- 5. The Latina Mystique -- 6. How Latina Are You? -- 7. María De La Barbie -- 8. Five Journeys To Success -- 9. Giving Up Beauty -- 10. Raising Our Voices -- Appendix A. Growing Up Latina Survey -- Appendix B. Phone And In-person Interview Questionnaire. Rosie Molinary. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 303-311) And Index. Newly revised and updated, this landmark anthology offers gripping portraits of American life as seen through the eyes of young women of colorIt has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from around the globe. Since then, key social movements have risen, including Black Lives Matter, transgender rights, and the activism of young undocumented students. Social media has also changed how feminism reaches young women of color, generating connections in all corners of the country. And yet we remain a country divided by race and gender.Now, a new generation of outspoken women of color offer a much-needed fresh dimension to the shape of feminism of the future. In Colonize This!, Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman have collected a diverse, lively group of emerging writers who speak to the strength of community and the influence of color, to borders and divisions, and to the critical issues that need to be addressed to finally reach an era of racial freedom. With prescient and intimate writing, Colonize This! will reach the hearts and minds of readers who care about the experience of being a woman of color, and about establishing a culture that fosters freedom and agency for women of all races. "In Hijas Americanas, author Rosie Molinary sheds new light on what it means to grow up Latina. Drawing upon her own experiences, as well as interviews and surveys collected from more than 500 Latina women, Molinary provides a powerful understanding of the inner conflicts and powerful triumphs of Latinas. The women profiled in this book are Caribbean, Mexican, Central American, and South American. These first-, second-, and third-generation Latinas have all grappled with the experience of coming of age within not one but two cultures -- that of the United States, and that of their familial homelands. Hijas Americanas addresses experiences that are uniquely female and Latin, focusing on themes of body image, standards of beauty, ethnic identity, and sexuality. In doing so, Molinary gives voice to the struggles and successes of Latinas across racial, sexual, and cultural identities, emphasizing that the challenges inherent in growing up between two cultures can positively shape Latinas' lives."--Publisher description While growing up in Versailles, an Indiana farm community, Linda Furiya tried to balance the outside world of Midwestern America with the Japanese traditions of her home life. As the only Asian family in a tiny township, Furiya's life revolved around Japanese food and the extraordinary lengths her parents went to in order to gather the ingredients needed to prepare it. As immigrants, her parents approached the challenges of living in America, and maintaining their Japanese diets, with optimism and gusto. Furiva, meanwhile, was acutely aware of how food set her apart from her peers: She spent her first day of school hiding in the girls' restroom, examining her rice balls and chopsticks, and longing for a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich. Bento Box in the Heartland is an insightful and reflective coming-of-age tale. Beautifully written, each chapter is accompanied by a family recipe of mouth-watering Japanese comfort food--Publisher's description In this seventh installment of the Seal Studies series, author and professor Maythee Rojas offers a look at the intricate crossroads of being a woman of color. Women of Color and Feminism tackles the question of how women of color experience feminism, and how race and culture can alter this experience. Rojas explores the feminist woman of color's identity and how it relates to mainstream feminism. Through stories and profiles of historical women of color (including Josefa Loaiza, Hua Mulan, and Sahaykwisa), discussion of the arts, and a look at the feminist groups and icons of today, Rojas exa "Professors and students alike are taking interest in girls' studies - the socialization of girls versus boys - and beginning to analyze the impact of media, pop culture, messaging, and more on American girls. Girls' studies tackles socialization and gender expectations, body image, and media impact, and gives insight into girl empowerment and how to equip our girls for a brighter future."--Back cover

Professors and students alike are taking interest in Girls' Studies—the socialization of girls versus boys—and beginning to analyze the impact of media, pop culture, messaging, and more on America's girls. Girls' Studies tackles socialization and gender expectations, body image, and media impact, and gives insight into girl empowerment and how to equip our girls for a brighter future.

Professors and students alike are taking interest in Girls' Studies the socialization of girls versus boysand beginning to analyze the impact of media, pop culture, messaging, and more on America's girls. Girls' Studies tackles socialization and gender expectations, body image, and media impact, and gives insight into girl empowerment and how to equip our girls for a brighter future. Learning to be a girl, learning to be a woman Girls' bodies, girls' selves: body image, identity, and sexuality "Mean" girls and "good" girls: socialization, friendship, and aggression Getting and making the message: girls and media Girls finding their futures. These are the histories ever present in every young queer/feminist scene, just undocumented-all the ones that weren't in Michelle Tea's or Sarah Schulman's capturing of white queergirl life. Bento Box in the Heartland tells a uniquely American story about girlhood, racism, assimilation, and the love of homemade food Defining identities Embodied representations Social struggles Creative expressions Loving selves.