In "The Hypersexuality of Race," Celine ParreNas Shimizu urges a shift in thinking about sexualized depictions of Asian/American women in film, video, and theatrical productions. Shimizu advocates moving beyond denunciations of sexualized representations of Asian/American women as necessarily demeaning or negative. Arguing for a more nuanced approach to the mysterious mix of pleasure, pain, and power in performances of sexuality, she advances a theory of "productive perversity," a theory which allows Asian/American women--and by extension other women of color--to lay claim to their own...
In "The Hypersexuality of Race," Celine ParreNas Shimizu urges a shift in thinking about sexualized depictions of Asian/American women in film, video,...