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A feeling of belonging : Asian American women's public culture, 1930-1960 / Shirley Jennifer Lim.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lim, Shirley Jennifer, 1968-
- Series:
- American history and culture.
- American history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asian American women--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Asian American women.
- Asian Americans--Cultural assimilation--History--20th century.
- Asian Americans.
- Young women--United States--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Young women.
- Single women--United States--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Single women.
- Leisure--United States--History--20th century.
- Leisure.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- United States--Social life and customs--1918-1945.
- United States.
- United States--Social life and customs--1945-1970.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c2005.
- New York, NY : New York University Press, [2005]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 unmarried Asian American women from 1930 to 1960. This period marks a crucial generation-the first in which American-born Asians formed a critical mass
- Contents:
- A feeling of belonging : Chi Alpha Delta, 1928-1941
- I protest : Anna May Wong and the performance of modernity
- Short-cut to glamour : popular culture in a consumer society
- Contested beauty : Asian American beauty culture during the Cold War
- Riding the crest of an Oriental wave : foreign-born Asian "beauty".
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-230) and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jan 2024)
- ISBN:
- 9780814765241
- 0814765246
- OCLC:
- 780425926
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