Hypervisibility and Invisibility: Asian/American Women, Radical Orientalism, and the Revisioning of Global Feminism
Hypervisibility and Invisibility: Asian/American Women, Radical Orientalism, and the Revisioning of Global Feminism
On November 12th, 2013 – 3:30 PM in 691 Barrows Hall, come listen to Judy Tzu-Chun Wu talk about her latest book, Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism During the Vietnam Era.
Studies on global feminism have critiqued the disproportionate power and the misperceptions of white middle-to-upper class women from the “West” in shaping these international alliances. Wu examines instead how “Third World” women, both those from the global South as well as racialized women in the U.S., fostered and deployed female internationalism during the “long” decade of the 1960s. In particular, Wu foregrounds the agency and perspectives of both Asian and Asian American women during the U.S. War in Viet Nam.
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu is Professor of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University. She is also co-editor of Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies and the coordinator for the OSU Asian American Studies Program. She is the author of Dr. Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity (California 2005) and Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era (Cornell 2013). She is writing with Gwendolyn Mink a political biography of Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first woman of color congressional representative and the co-sponsor of Title IX.