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

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,...

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Superior document:American History and Culture
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Year of Publication:2005
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:American History and Culture
Physical Description:1 online resource (252 p.)
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