A Feeling of Belonging: Asian American Women's Public Culture, 1930-1960

by Shirley Jennifer Lim

Book Overview

When we imagine the activities of Asian American women in the mid-twentieth century, our first thoughts are not of skiing, beauty pageants, magazine reading, and sororities. Yet, Shirley Jennifer Lim argues, these are precisely the sorts of leisure practices many second generation Chinese, Filipina, and Japanese American women engaged in during this time.
In A Feeling of Belonging, Lim highlights the cultural activities of young, predominantly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814751946
• ISBN13: 9780814751947
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"