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 sexuality...
In "The Hypersexuality of Race," Celine Parrenas Shimizu urges a shift in thinking about sexualized depictions of Asian/American women in film, video,...