Un)Doing the Missionary Position: Gender Asymmetry in Contemporary Asian American Women's Writing

by Phillipa Kafka

Book Overview

While the writing of other ethnic women has already been receiving considerable attention, the writing of Asian American women has not. (Un)Doing is the first feminist theoretical work to look at writing by such contemporary Asian American writers as Amy Tan, Fae Myenne Ng, R. A. Sasaki, Gish Jen, and Cynthia Kadohata. Viewing them as feminist and postfeminist writers, Kafka argues that gender asymmetry in all its varied forms and guises is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313301611
• ISBN13: 9780313301612
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"