Table of Contents
Introduction: Toward a Peminist Theory, or Theorizing the Filipina/American Experience I Identity and Decolonization1 A Personal Story: On Becoming a Split Filipina Subject 2 Not Just My Closet: Exposing Familial, Cultural, and Imperial Skeletons 3 Fictions of Assimilation: Nancy Drew, Cultural Imperialism, and the Filipina/American Experience 4 "This Is Not Your Mother’s Catholic Church": When Filipino Catholic Spirituality Meets American Culture II (Re)Writing Peminist Sociohistory 5 Asian American History: Reflections on Imperialism, Immigration, and "The Body" 6 Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers and the International Division of Reproductive Labor 7 Beauty Queens, Bomber Pilots, and Basketball Players: Second-Generation Filipina Americans in Stockton, California, 1930s to 1950s III Peminist (Dis)Engagements with Feminism 8 Pinayism 9 Filipino American Men: Comrades in the Filipina/o American Feminism Movement 10 Feminism across Our Generations IV Theorizing Desire: Sexuality, Community, and Activism 11 Tomboy, Dyke, Lezzie, and Bi: Filipina Lesbian and Bisexual Women Speak Out 12 Deflowering the Sampaguita 13 The Long Road Ahead V Talking Back: Peminist Interventions in Cyberspace and the Academy14 Creating NewFilipina.com and the Rise of CyberPinays 15 Ain’t I a Filipino (Woman)?: An Analysis of Authorship/ Authority through the Construction of Filipino/Filipina on the Net 16 "A-walkin’ fo’ de (Rice) Kake": A Filipina American Feminist’s Adventures in Academia, or A Pinay’s Progress 17 Not White Enough, Not Filipino Enough: A Young Mestiza’s Journey VI Peminist Cultural Production 18 Sino Ka? Ano Ka?: Contemporary Art by Eight Filipina American Artists 19 Theory in/of Practice: Filipina American Feminist Filmmaking 20 Resisting Appropriation and Assimilation via (a)eromestizaje and Radical Performance Art Practice 21 The Herstory of Bamboo Girl Zine 23 Filipinas "Living in a Time of War"
