Fetishized : a reckoning with yellow fever, feminism, and beauty / Kaila Yu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yu, Kaila, 1979- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yu, Kaila, 1979-.

Yu, Kaila.

Nylon Pink (Musical group).

Women singers--United States--Biography.

Women singers.

Women rock musicians--United States--Biography.

Women rock musicians.

Models (Persons)--United States--Biography.

Models (Persons).

Asian American women--Biography.

Asian American women.

Asian American women--Public opinion.

Asian American women--Sexual behavior.

Orientalism--United States--History--21st century.

Orientalism.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Essays.

Biographies.

Informational works.

Physical Description:

x, 242 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, [2025]

Summary:

"A deeply personal memoir-in-essays, reckoning with being an object of Asian fetish and how media, pop culture, and colonialism contributed to the oversexualization of Asian women-from Kaila Yu, former pin-up model and lead singer of Nylon Pink"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Author's note

Introduction

Daddy

Geisha

Butterfly

ABGs

China dolls

Bad Asian

Bunnies

Exotic

Race queens

Not Lucy Liu

"Candy coated sugar sex"

Slanted

Lolitas

Unicorn

A reckoning

Deep

Sources and additional reading

A not entirely comprehensive list of fetishized portrayals of Asian women in mainstream media.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-240) and filmography (pages 241-242).

Other Format:

Online version Yu, Kaila Fetishized

ISBN:

9780593728017

0593728017

OCLC:

1473929305