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    Agar reed algae Weta uchiha ead inde, an oye ae) ss .o-any-apy peak pe) ean Ae erie een ni re fr onw ennneans. suznszu sth pion 1 enjoyed presenting pars of thit work at Arizona State Universi cornell Univesity Dartmouth College, Emory Univesity, Indiana Uni- erst the Johns pkine University, iter College, the University of alfornia Berkeley, oe, wes the Univer of California, Santa Cis, he University of Maryland, the University of Teas, Austin, Wheaton college, Rutgers University, Stanford University, and Yale University Law Sool Thank you tothe audiences ttt veins, at well as thos a See, the Americ Anthropology sociation the American Ltrature Asocation, the Asscition for Asian American Studi, Crossroads in rata Studies tC the Society forCinema and Mei Sts, and ne Wold Congres on Sexology for thei responses. Thankyou ery much he vzious organizers for inviting met share my ideas, especialy Alex Juha, Else Barcy Brow, Surana Wer, O: Ving Pang ard he Ess sian Studies Journal at, Rudy Bust, Mia Carter, David Paumbo-Li, Kum- Kum Bhavnani, Anthony Ocampo, Eve Oishi, Chon Novis ind Willams, Constance Pnly, John W. Lae, the Yl Journal of Lav and Feminiam, andthe Women’s Sexuality course at ue-Berkeey. ‘Asan editor Ken Wiser held ry hand throughout he proces, and a honored by his coatnent to making this book Sn ts es shape. The anonymous readers belped me to make this book beter. Anita Gres and Katharine Bal very gracioudy helped wth the production proces, Shalt Visas careuly proofread earlier versions and the tal- ted writer immaher Cynthia Liv copedied ear versions ofthis manuscript. ann deply appreciative of my fy. Love for my sisters Rhacel, hance, Cais, Jo, Aa, and Mahal, and for my aees Bea and Zoe apis these pages. My parents and broter Rolf mark thee pages too. The ent Shima fai the Risks and MCobbs,geniney expressed bir intestn my work. Pala Focal andSter Vogel elped ny family cate fo ur sone when this work elled me awe. ‘My sons Bayan and Laks Parte hii myhome and my strength, form the main addictions of my if. ook forward to our conversations shout he fee [explore ths book. Acros the golden hls ofthe Bay Area, fom Berkely, San Fraelco, and Sion Valley co the tals and beaches of our home in Sata Barbra, I whispered these pass to my husband, Dan Parents Shia, eal hours of ou shared lives. whoe heartedly dedicate this book to him, al the yeas of ts aking tied iogsther with ropes made of my hopes, heart and spit achnoutedgrents i Le THE HYPERSEXUALITY OF ASIAN/AERICAN WOMEN & Toward « Paicaly Productive Paverity on Seren snd Scone Geren t) 1am seenten and riding the bus ome le tight. tit in whi erm the man srs fom me ais tht we he mtn Man hen tore bree Anges orOlongp wher epee ht a ‘hot pig ong bal om ny vain Tae ery Public baling eves shocks fen confuses and confounds me, Fremont ws my ponte this ne! Fm Gat viral monet of misecgon ce my dese towns wht hd aspen ar SI eas ate, the yo nome ths sone ingen of oth Asan and Ain ‘even women x byperesulgswa ot n a ek trol he sng eof pervee sexys that can be owe prods opti cong ow sn Aericn women ese ‘thers and sling tn ose tenses anew wh ei igs ean deny own eed at cous Gn eel eens Ti 7 Tan women eating a bal om stage in Mis gon (st nig ss rte Ore ein The Tf Beda os, fd sging about fren love in the melodrama Dado Baty (on Eocunrig the orgrus Nancy Kan te tah on able am mm dancing onthe hang consuming sight fbr she stays and commands the gaze af ll Kinds of en in popular movies died rte rac sex ick ny sling is wile raching acy ecg whit eatin suchas Payback 999) AS he dominatrix el a eter see chap, te tls to beating UP De vite malelove, wo saprer back with eg opportunity fre. Cain sack Chart’ Angels) she wi chns an twits mii 0 lick Cspin Gloves Ins short cheng sam and with hop inher i, det masse wing on Tin Cary’ ack before “ching im saconsciour witha smal tO ise ave lan women por sas dlvrng lye roken English whe performing in dng aly agen long ack wig and gui ello ak ht nage danedeyes The Soothes Aan woe prstterang aout rans ions with thiols The Gad Wan of Ranga (99) roo me Fombewcen hefingerscoveringmy yes heploakngat the posttues perfocmingorsmsi the porograpic peo Asan Debitet995— 3) When wt fins by other Asia Area women fms crate whois th and the danger lve he urban Asan Amen woman weaig SiO sor carat Dots apd ved sick cating hebrown set ofLos Angles, facingaoundos otopswih ae ep inmigran and es be prope agen Hyun MO La Seo L995) the sex aaa Aan woe who be cay set (Corbi anal rons) when fel they jst etn He Lee buco im, and endr/ra-ambigus women in ftsh we who murat and pron wih ds fo Macibo Sits experimental mois ny cv sort ns am ose with fucking ander sex stilt djnanssofpowe dire and clonal soy ead ing Asin American wonnen Whites lear, {st characte to of herself up ie dsr in Mahal ans Lave ad Expensive (993), nue my rales vartous eons ofthe Tpalg word fo vg in Her Upmeing Pants Ha (993), on uneons iors neal se seein Sipe Fino ———~ yeaa evening ol ng ele fan Ameren wore seat a pover Days inappropriate andi prope ogo aaa feat pls, Competed quetos arse ring te poll nate of ch leur: What dhe reasons betcen istry anderson? Whit she ole a ay and the phi eof ings frmulig our understand ofl overt ow do images of the seri suc Asan woman complement clo a projects inthe eneunter betwen Europ, he United Slats and Asa ‘crs the twentieth century? How do hypersenilwomen epee Yinsas dag ay, prota with aero ld and dominatrigsity ing he loin tt al fees tnd the model minority in the ls bal How does Be production ofthe ese and desiring Asian women mesh with campaigns fo wl East ‘Asin and Sout Asan proton owt mae sex ours in the cof The Wold of Suie Wong (980) al contemporary profesional tmatcur porography shot i the Pippin, Thang, and Kors to day? Docs Hower Drum Song (96) ltimately present Asan Americas wit Asian women as trading gender objets, within a mode minty framework that counter the emergence of malta black ower move ment Doct Lacy Lis contemporary ig wimatly belong 4 tration ofimperaist images that como objetiy, and fishin the boas of Asian women? Are performances of Asan/American wonsen ‘orn stars aswell athe produton of sexually explicit images by Asan American women flmakes dangerous products aCe casunsnes? Why am I obsesed wih the seats of Asan/Amercan women on sexe ani hi relationship to th scenes of every tet ‘My intense pleasures coexist with teil pin rearing ea Iypeseuaity. Are we orl othe margas body pleasures ated rom ace, sex aed representation sch s my emibrcs oases of the dragon ly, the ponte wth «heart of ol the mins the apes whos and ny Ain ifaw pes the pin of al ntepelion hat we encounter on the sees when msrcoized 28 fanny images, whore en Asian gi How come sl come ‘ie oly in por shop um by Asan? Beans Tam an Asian Arca ‘woman, the Asa owner uly more bl to disconnect me fom the mse buy How do we esone abe git tat haunts ur enoyment of sexual performances with our admiration ofthe clebratonofsexualiy In the pevtomancas of sy, Naney Kwan and LAG, a well as nthe ddalingtechaiear ana marae ovations in the work of sch inde pendent Asian/Amcrican Simms a Veena Cabrero Sind, Grace Le, Hen Le, Hyun Mi Oh, and Macho Sato? Can porn shout Asian! ‘tion women pred oct Hoong al plone corey om "bd obj” soprenttins ach a uber Ain ‘rome, aly con tantra polit . eka tS OSR IR go We WverRSeSMLATY OF wuam/anenicON WoneN a ‘Te consider my pessrable reaction as excessive to g004 poles would stim bean insfcen response co the power of representation and the ch experienos of railed sexuality, When encountering the itany ‘of dragon ad, the las Blasi, the prostate wit hear of gold the lite brow fucking machine powered by ce, the dominatrix, and the ‘whore pomerfl mistcogiton transpires for Asan women of seen “Asia Atercan women in the xeene of viewing are sujet othe s+ ruleneou elton, seston, and boro of "Is that me/not me Tadore it bat it tortares me, Stop Jeong, obo, Keep Jookng! Give ne more! How do I decribe Feeling painBate and pleaurllove atthe very sme timed” isan exterely painful and intensely pleasurable contradictory cxptience of viewing, producing, and crt. To insist on plesure ome into confontation wth the psinlapectra such representations ‘ns such, thee experiences of viewing dramatize the polit and eco- omic negates not only of rereentaton bat ofthe soci xprieness of Asian American women. So The Hyperseuality of Rac lial emerges from my omn “bad sphistys ara viewer drawing plesure from seuaied image Of ‘sian wonen while ogling itu, harms, and injustos, anda an ‘sa Ansan fens mae aig ari a iaaag wl ean oie nthe ace and era experience, copoly at snaltyapd eroticism enable amore ton ‘riots UB ormation for ANA wpMER For ample in my latest video work, The Fat of Asian Women (2022009) 1 interop how pervene sexuality nies the presentations of Aslan American Feme faales in Hollywood fru the 1930 to the present. Anna May Wing, Nancy Kvan and Lucy Lia cach repeesent various modes of excasve sexuality as the dragon lady, the prontte with «beart of goky and the dominatrix, The perersty unifying tele eepresenttions, which are palpably diferent fom normal seralty ually embodied by a white eal represeniions of race ‘Almost twenty yur since the Kernel of this project was plant on that Berkeley bs, whi clear ike never before is the eas with which we can resort to ssving for kind of normativity inthe face of hypersexel chapter one eee loser coescretmasta eas Sasa eae oe wit fu ra ven ‘ezuali-as Alan/ Ric wae WE can too easly confine Te vst ee eee oo eee ee oes ee eee pagar pelea poare pipa ee ees corns land gamers ce Toe Se ae eee eae as ae ee eee ee eee roped tnreplpelier eer erin ‘guity aid ullimate unkknowability of race, sexuality, and representation, ee ee ae ee eee eee ei ntseromeusegety ogee el cee eee iy ESE ad a Seley of engages of power in defining res seul, and represen Lone ee a ee ene eo ee eee mee ee ge oan eee oe ee a ae gee tana tt ely a octamer eee {dy ane afta ed efits of sexual, race, and representation and therefore ae ru- re wrpensexuncrr¥ OF nstaH/anentenn vont 5 ibe for he cea formations of subjectivity. Ths, representations of ciied sexuality oer tremens patcleviqu in rewriting the tlt of moving image” claret ace se ex alts. "Ths ist chapter provides the theoretical underpinnings ofthe book. tein withthe work of Asan American actress, mmaers writers and performance artists a wal as crits, wh powerfully cm the perversity stubuted to thei sexuality a ein, anti-racist and sx positive x= tique. They provide new pois of rac, ek and eepresnttian 8 od with new grammar snd voeabulres. By developing etal concept that ‘Somme pander ‘evant stor in nee lth sor So Tan Wr agement of pone ete wine prodocion capo ean of ciel ely Sip cucpdan Re tonandron af eos erento ads to try incon of ems ently npn oy Pot—Aso! ‘tg onthe uae gull of ol expect andthe ure Tatty of epreenaten perming polly rode presi, tnd poste ely “Tough ny dy of Aian/Anetian womes's hosp, sector ship and itepreaton, {die Ingerouality in repestatione form of bondage tat echt aaa To ‘The Ign of peel ica wbrat combination any and ety hing the feng of he aha mun, or hens ope tonal Sousa topo othe love of loking ent om med, oenng th dot oy aj iat ene sry om theselto of ce mst prt of se oti, When we caste the embrace ot hyperseualy watTeal prodctne presiy othe {sigue of the pow of normals especial in Hinting dcftions of ‘Cali we find ero maken fone punishment ni dip ings Aan Arnercan women iperenili nrepresenation, Bye Ceving serait ands An American wore ems oe postive sexuality, dhe work ams to center the soca experiences nt nly (of Asal Angican women but feual minors i Nor care and representation Desi eae hw the work (of Asan/Ametican fein ealturalprodacer edfine not oly ther tlonsipbesween race, vexualty and representation, bt our very notions ‘of power, pleasure, pain, andthe political chapter one siaw/mmenscnn Femsnssr eenvonnens {never sw Asin people on levis rn tv, 0 my reste wee orn hat ited 1 would deem [oie changlg 0 «high-pted gly squeal ‘Maybe tome I cn bean eta on MASH,” “Maybe someday ol ply Arnolds itriend on Happy Daye” °Maybe could pay «hock in me thing” be king in the mir, “Sky ck two dls Me foe you Tong ime” Margaret Cho, "My Dreams Were Limited” Notorious CH. (2003) In even 200) he popular comedian Margaret Ch its roles caly aval or Asian/Amerian women on een: acu, gh, opium smoker, chiken-vilding peasant, Korea ote owner, and Bond Bl Inher one-woman once fis, NotrowsCH1 (200), Cho delives the punch ine “Suckyfacly two da! Melave you lng tine!"—deriding the popular epleties describing san women, and distorting the line with conortins office, body and voice In this "ice see sever ings of Asian women wth "esl Alan women, he dete the esis of entiation wih popular cultural epesenttone-Thaspiteto_ such derivative roles isa dead-end deal Cho not onl fuses but dees io contemporary Performances tha 5-4 mare complex word of poh one pene ea ana seu, and cs ‘dentiy-That se dfs the phantasmniescren of Asa ema sexily, ‘tration long esate inthe te nineteenth century and preceding Jer on sae fom the aos presence of Mame Chyna 87) to Madame Baer tothe contemporary presence of Lay Li's domi tea Tn the fae of such lege Cho demands a ett ofr ln sexuality in represen ety, fing se for merely any “ist She banishe the specter he sal set, servile terse ‘Aan femininity ascribed as "natal for Ain women withalarge brash and shane embrace of hypesexaliy—s iepresibly periee, ca- tl pleasure seeking, raumatized dierent, and waconanaly goer? Margaret Cho's performance resonates loudly inthe living images” a Tadeo bythe screener Vena Cabrero Sud, who describes the pro cess as engaging Asian Aretican worsen bth on scene and eee, 1 am a ail who eat ses aks an ets voreiosly—t ase « “pod” woman does it gent and in misonary poston ony. To deny ue "ie HYOERSEXURLETY WF ASEAM/anenzenm HONE Inet fr ste prtstion eto dam the door onal desist create 2 lus cooking, Jane Clever deg A combo Stepford We Virgin May The ple, “good” worn who gos ek at the mouse. In ea, ‘ve seem more like exhausted, crewed, protective, hungry women and mothers who ling to our hidren loner than they would ke and would will een eager, rota than and ous witha sledge Su di dae tno seein. po ice hat ones hen fap ie nang Not of tninny nce ggasi sn gh sound ses fsx nd gender In fit er oat winning shor ln Setar (oe) dua he Giining pare upon er brown fol og ‘hes buy. Ashes the ne pls ith ern were mae tof the pitch cltive dapper she gies i ‘eons her Sh dsr the nl fn ney ye er The ln crete an ual pysal octyl ae Sate er nel body in ks eta and pls ene wih er owgion aang coating Hak de Sa i aang ay “een ein err who ses neil term in oer 0 diet an dlr & more complex etre of Asin Ameren fee pee They pon ped gus foal argo An ‘ean ween tough sale atborhp in ee, pri tance an fl tht ooo seme blige and een thar smal argu bing “his hig charged eens withered ine wrk af the we, pie it sv, ed expo Ty Goa ‘vhoempbasnea non miming of xan Ameren ese ly nny of ata al Gi (ose denier ier {Slit ghd opener babysitig wa so ping {ebvatoker’ sy the cre Nancy Chan Whi ak don Cuan pos delete cop wat the cond oes fai tin arg a not ape to he pola’ In an oy indy ors pots of ner easy the Aa Ae Cia pholoaperhgin ote a Oral), an ects the plies fie sexily and benty a pat he no pron Rtg tach greta tht an omen pe Jat havens for western me, she cits white feminists fr thee ig comple, agen, snd ple, Qu oc uriqul nd bt se charter the tlfcentedns of ite fein in funn the ie of hn wo oman She doe witha brane tal rei ny ior poo ing! Qu prec egg proton and ried sexalty tc the espe of set wk arsed by hin weed eins women who eg the ako ey i amen Sach ei sent “Theva de-prvepogof mora: judgent deans Tay an allow te frmer post Ey La ere themed ‘mal fund withinbr inna elon ithe evs movie The Day of Fa (994), Sea Oh ala ng Ain female model mio gone ory. Ava outer te carter "i Las i ey fom moter no ewes bot dogs ‘ody Shay url upon singhome enn ape y the mam who proves “feo” er Selo fo sey es com Dominthip nd itead nests am endless of men wo ai er se {el One rei ex ar providing ew pins els wit er fev, fe her drags an oom athe er sc hae er ot Clove the Gorin fe Conied nd pec she ae see ber ite by writing where she mayb: hale indy lnk oder tune, need overer bed ingouphomes oF aking the ret With cotaling ken rp dele ome o gs nd resin pub reed One dyes twain ater Shor short se eacouiis her otc and fines setae and inne conontatn, When necting be curtain esi ‘hes oso wear eying over ber Bnet sockngs. En he fcc oe tr the caracer intel aco el rats Young ross apart of er aiormaton. She dete coming 9 ths pete tough» Dig encounter wit a oe man fence i wel wicks erp afer a te men fd women ke advantage. The Mcgee nerd erva conn change rater a vee ‘vested when ye wet ike Mich one agus that ones teh it ose TT ex The former ott nd ein adi she encounters nepali the poo surviving on he tet frac runaways hereon part oie, ayof the io sewed me wen Ts they ped mee whee fm no: Aer ile fo ofthe ep comingack A then fond Ihe nvPensexunexre OF nex one ten HONE ° that we were spending more tee raping than we wee szeting Then they became people Butthey had tobe objets fist you cat have the other way atound* ere, Tau comesto understand sex premised not on te accepted ss tion that exis bdo that marginal paope are ely owes, Rather, they ate stated within structural locations that must be accounted or in alloftheir unwieldy upines. The ey ats er wating not nly o record ‘etal of her encounters but to make sense of her experiences To wit shout thes experiences gives worth to marginalized subject poston re quently smised as one without al, Ta write about sex wor, rau, and sexual consciousness with an accounting of thet rac and gender implications isto centralize the way in which they organize the exper «ences of women of color wi lv inthe margas and wade the ube ofthe perverse. Furthermore, such an act demysties lowes” works fequentl dismissed as unworthy of nazration—runawsy, posite drag Addict Through incisive, attentive, and detailed anaes of the power dynamics in Lis relationships, the experiences of people in the mar sinsemerge. ‘Through thet work a Aslan American ferns cultural produces (ho, Cabrers-Sud, Quan, and Lau give voice to «sexulzn, rai tae, gendered, and clase subject that—no matter how unelible and unraveled) shoul ecvy acetal pace rial discourses and 2 15 deserving of vchly nuanced and complex representation. Simply pute the ‘complex intersections of sexuality in tert of race, gender, eas and David Palumbo-Lis inserts the lah be tween Asian and American in oder to question how Asian American people persistently ccupy questionable statue TTME-CATE Sats at oF TRE TET Asan o American partialary THAT TIRES mec he rac state ards fee ctzenship Bart ofa "éynams, unsettled” proces Lara yun Vi Kang introduces the formulation of Asan/Amescan women 0 'sccounfor the dstnconsand inkage between Asn and Asian Amer ‘an women i her book Compositional Subj (2003). She ents the ying groups who are grossly generalized under the referee, Kang ses the term in oer to “stress what the contradictory cain made about, by 1nd for Aslan/ American women might suggest about the instability end inadequacy of those generic dlnetions of individuality and collet: liy™ So use the term Aslan/Amercan in order to comment om the ffoquent conflation of Asan and Asian Amescay at work wth repre: sentation, Ths the “interweing ssn Asian Amercan ents he tensions within the unwieldy reference. fai tose the terms Asian! “American, Asian, Arnrican relly n onde to capture how pate. lareepresenttions, fantasies, material conditions, an actual beings ara ‘imate snd dive. Following Palumbo-Lia and Kang identify the power ef repesenttion esta knovleg, ce sahdssee a Soy fans eding te HET Ain Amen women at ieee deg aR Toe the diferent sexual acialztins of Aan/Amercan women st {hereon of ur assis acknowl how hy he diferent hier Pesan nego ty onl pane xy ah eccuece of ype diet manittation of powers at cach eauaton requis ateton tothe speccy ofthe robles amis. In peste counting forthe diverse rac eal ctu ‘historical experenss among Asia Areran women, such Eat ‘san vers Soest Asa Yer South Asin, ace how thee tend in representation shit ove eb vary an shin color Aerenc, epional context and ote facts In this poet ast this ambiguy of dfrence not ony inthe lager deployment of the concep of rae sx and epresentation but hroughout each ds read ing ad the experiences of ths epretettons hough the metbods of ‘thnogaphy and inerve. do on odo heep open the posse oie eprsenttions in the fof homoge sey bond. ing various Aln/Amercanwowen, Wha I finds that whe Aen chapter one “American women ae not fice fom interpelaton as sexualaed and slalzed subjects in representation there ate opportunities ordi our seal every ine — ‘a pasclar seni equited otis project ofidemtiing more panic and eliming the epsgnant? Orin other words, does it require ap ‘Asian/Amercan woman o make these arguments soa 0 aod acc ons af TT SRT sa The ik of rebig precy what ped to be contested indeed exist. The demand to pay tention to Asian womens discussion of exalt is rendered within hind of tratorship not only tthe race but wo one’ tadalied gender Sech a poiing and lscplinng of Asian/ American womea!s sexual expressions echocs ctl ‘chats between feminist and matioal tne by Elaine H.Kimand [Kng-kok Cheungin Asian American studies dacurse x whats preiely| st stake in the Frank Chin and Maxine Hong Kingston debts ofthe 19805 emerge from aconvers formulation ofthe problem. Iproblems- tie what it means to author, vew, and cique a8 an Asian/ American ‘woman inthe various sts of my study. My location etal pay role in what 1 sce and what 1 make, The atticltion ofthis viewing and speaking position contites to what we know about thve varius ob- jects and sibjecs. Ulimately, che project of poitczng the perverse a ‘ur forthe importance ofthe experience of discomfort in its power to transform our notions of what snormal and what an acceptable form of| sexual fr rcalized and peered sbjpts. The projec dends those fn dhe sexual mating rom, Experiences an exes Sons. Iams to make space forthe formation of alternative sexi, ‘render and cum My sade ot calegerne of pet Canin coat to REAR at nate is PGE pol cmc aay not ony finder etpreaio but of tee ds gn del ject, N57 sexual in representation, While this bondage indicates a particulate To pers seualization in representation, Asia/ American women cn weit in othe seb enaling ways. That, bondags, or what I er the "We WoNORGE OF REIAN/ANERICAL HOREN He HYBERSEXUALETY OF asznx/ aenrenn uonen 5 ind frepreetion? describ i experince of vieving peroring {cits hypeserulty obo piven pane west Poll fo dla Asrcan women. OF Toe er or lee ete hyper ‘Sl Asn woman inepeettion hams the epee sad pe. fon of Aan women cs diferent coments Ty revo nd ttn ths Hong of hypersaiy a sep ‘rm sian/Amevican women epson ad i ior. al pos the wk of Lars Kg who ds how at epitemvilene otc sut hana wen wen ese Tok ‘eli My ager gos ther by asering tht ny Aa Ate ‘oman wh mit neta er ety an he pst mt fete pecan geprsenttion Tht sli iEe er $218 hin wore st as engage ace fr nde, these and thr elton with oes ho poe hypeneilty spot ‘hem This Lege forhow the onde of pene an the nda teresasion ba mt be ut in serve of making te ester td teu oracle aly leva in our undestnding of re, sd represen. iu shat (ocying thetraiionl re ofthe pe poston nex eaton, ee st of pty power tos sa he vener of pare seat neste by tat Song. pire the atjcon of Acar Ameicun woe vera erga eng thr maralaton je of eg ‘Tht newer toss maetalete dou Ase ‘omen inept then rw the dors wile opener ‘eating hw keh sexy lta. These mingle ‘ate eas more aaa ela opening up th pei or tow Asin Ameran women aeons hengh sents lining nd objecting cea wel ss aging over when service of Asian American women, Seaecaeee eee Tree Margaret ho who cempliie te act ofesitance ands dette andspeenitnl agency se ase how ing caught in the tres fest ani parton. ing and ‘ting pena imag ofr pot for chaning Wate se subject for red and genie ste. Her itn eal or formanceshe dicinion sod suggestive performances 0 lw aces ‘nding the atl epee in the ao tng Ana Nile Sih fsting-compel the acrpane of perene and palmrphoes era chapter one Margaret Cho shows that Asin/Amercan women cannot but lve through thee racial sexualzaton: itis them, Unable to fleas fom race-gener sx interpelation, she conte the meaning ofthat hyperex ay and lead us to the possibilty of forming critical new sje sna new aesthetic that shumorous and powerline cretve counter ci-sexualization, The framework of bondage and the bind aims to capture the restrietions and constrain iting Asan American womens choices, made within aggravated situations in onder to open the posi ties of soetining sex. ac, and representation in an open-ended sion, rather than shutting them down, The demand for Aan Ameren women to performaseiptcan too cay bind us toa more inclsvedfiton of| ‘sexuality and representation that Asian American women deploy through representations of die for eral pleat and ex wot, ike the werk of Tracy Quan, though sexta and alternative existence, ke that of eyn Lau, though sexual power and vinlenc, lke tat of Veena Cabrers-Sud an though raunchy pla ewdes tke hat of Mar tet Cho, I draw iaspization from prominent Asian Americin women esformes mmakers, ad actresses for they embody the bind of p= resentation. Hyperselty fr Asian American women is a neowork of social forces that ground dei leit seule, at terms fr sl ecogntionand as apd of seal marginalization that eado oppor ‘nies for restive st-nvention, (Our sexuality i embedded ia history; our history embedded in the seswaity we eon sren, Is impoztant 0 rel the historic context of sexuality that nseribed the immigetion of Alan women ito the United Sates sitsigiiantly informs my exploration ofalternatve responses 0 sexuaiy in Asian American discourses of espresnation. Figures of Chi nese women prosiues occupied a prominent place in popular clare to the extent that his imagined threat shaped immigration, resulting i the Page Law in 5), which curbed their population Atte turn of the ce tury, Chinese women prostittes wee routinely hari on he sees Japanese women entered th United rue brides” atthe begin ring of the went entry and er World War IL” a Plipino Americas history, woman was stoned to dest for he adultery, hich was considered a onder and rail teitorhip Korean worsen Te wreRseKUMLITY OF Asann/neRtCAN WoneH 4" “wa rides” ave inthe United States with tice Ameccan hus bunds afte the Korean Wa Mail-order open pl brides fom the Pilip- Pines are introduced through catalogues toy Mail-oder brides ate ‘epecily vulnerable because tei legal status conditional upon their ‘marriage toa US. ctzn or permanent resident, regal of dometic violence” Asan sex workers evel to the United tates to bacome rans ational sex workers"The proces of raclizaton Include he sexuality ‘of Asian wornen as a ental subjgating force in ways that ca be bette reflected in our approaches to representation, Because of the strong esablshment of perverse intetirtyasoited with patil racial vist, Asan Americans fein approuches to the stay ofyperseaual representation can unconsciously et caught ip ina agenda of morals» and propriety i sexuality isnot defined more sity The pudaon say a serenyseiqe st ed oy tora pois ote Wand fr oping ow ea te hale the bse moral ier of sci appre in the inary Bete the es blow and te dg ay at eat a he pena ‘rameorkineucig A Arn women Westen Cosma Such an appach empl tow epeettons of been an nam Downe satya epresston recon eedrbu agy the ad timate, Sach ed mew of a ves he sight of sex as simply esting from aptemic racism that doesnot Se appli toa moreambitalent proceso presentation often ads to pure the dynamic and ever completed specifiy of history" ‘Theatendant moralsm galvanized in respons to ici sexuality in representation marginalizes Asan Arnercan women To panic about se ual, vial, or gendered images reifying Asian/Amercan women isto ‘ignore the importance of questioning how raced sexuality consttates subjects and idenites. The exiting approaches to the sadly of Asian! American women in representation include defining railed yexuality thn heteronormatve standards and epudtng visu through the method of elsifing and thus cling mage in fran of moraisi= scopopila or visual paranoia, When thes approaches ae theorized as injurious In epresentation, our understanding ofthe poli tity of these images ie aggravated by moral pani responses that shat the door ‘doa on dierent kins of viewing aswel as altmative sex forms and relations that emerge fom the experienc of both vex and representation ‘As such dhe Totus blossom and dragon lady dichotomy, a applied to chapter one ‘an women i Ameren scr one, et car vt we se over nag cig Bing ip sorte hae ‘oralcio of puns plewreinthenanra weno Set ngewe es ane ‘ichigo preface ims ha SSH Aes Sov peers yen sli oom ee ft ‘Sry itet fom wat scone noma en spe? ‘atc we dg om os be souean Aran sine amt HR eps ed ey ‘eae et Ses for UTM PESTO amateur weap? ‘Wi sboErosaecki pc in mori ctl an tne einer iw we ass wht ese and un ok th Fo dw eter tow wane ape pret Ho ewe pa pene cov amon oy me se Win cle! sonic ‘Sau snp nd trons ut bee athe red Src ott wel prep ed exon nar and innpremntaon 8 hea tne tceprns leo {lth premio ene pron ee Foca ‘ne soa panei dba of ciple of ea ipsa of st fs er a cel es Se veal ln lorie ho mao ely own tape ‘n/m none cog ha il oh a dy lp thse ov ident ew horizons ofbeingthat eed to be mi epoca posibltes™ When moral panic ‘continues to inform ou understanding of railed seal in repeesen- tation, informing theories that privilege ordinary normale, we Tose the ‘portunity to reimagine whats mising, unaccounted for, and exe in the nommal—such s perverse practice that ete the dcplining of women by sexaliy® ‘When we dismiss Asan American women's embrace of sexuality in representation a sinply dangerous and immoral we deprive ourseis of the profoundly interesting way ace se, performance and visual lure work together wo conve ceativiy, please, power, and tre simul neously. The discussion ofsauality inal ofits challenging complexity an- oes the secondary and supplementary sats of Asian American women, Sewualiy as punishment, dcplin, please and posit, comprises Asian American women, 50 its dicusion acknowiedges them ae tly {We HYPEREEXURLETY OF nss4n/AMCAEAN HORER ible subject of dy pec a te noc eaters tom henner whes eons run nie Ge db nots he pble how te puolgy oper inages unt and turn pb, pra and inating oa sl perception, dig ou tat portant ein and ou very mr ‘Dentin the word the Alan/ Arc woman anne elms ‘ie fx es Somat mast cain tem of ening ooking nee ote quatre ae in 2 connie ey ts poses Of elaping henagatn, bling cory int the dbge of pasar in or en tes an insur owt Tinos we the en unowaiiy tocape the ins 0 moving imped toeprsent scale dol dein tof how eda arecapbe of resting alternate males a member that epmsntsion are irl hated aempse cmment ono ‘ll expen and do nt precy apts gone or aything Moe ‘rey epost fare pr dae ee ded arnt in what nay oer on mn ov sage te con of un {nova ion te lima enya epesenalon ce tine poss ining ving abt win conurbute rou omen ingrningas thy eget Gang ndenaing ofa nemo and bist ongnizing interpetation ner stay of the mate Thott, aurea dates video cnbring bong ‘hati and si wheal ing d ascents of Caper th ee fhe secs She deere lingo the ‘emp tectire what ned andl sacl eprint, Cater Sse eer te cnet north epoena tos ofthe ter comment on wat atin oy emt oa ec ‘kcourse western cle” si et Ov sealed elena They dete the donne of vay a unicsing the worl ‘en sein dos not nese knowing Sina pon Ieeping SPE ts posible aed In wore too ex condemned et noel move frwuthe dca by akong how fin ‘Aman instar poducs ena oe abo or ajc ee ime an gee no abr th so arate peers How a se aipioympeintation soa imine new words and pss or ‘San Aneta vomet To move debt about alae souaiy in epesentaon say fom morale coop tat se seul eee or threo the chapter one emis of racilzed women isto complicate the procs of viewing | ‘simply an eof violence upon the viewer. We an acknowledge mages of ‘Asian women as pervert and pathological emul in Western cinema tnd fro thete agus tat the conderination of non-core sexuality pd the simpication of the proces of viewing file do at suiienty ‘pte the politi pou raed in watching rae and sex on scren ‘Thespace between ondageandfeedom in defining raced sexuality vast ambiguous, and complex in ways we ned ossain a unknowable, ‘or ever mysterious and surprising. To know ones as unnowable ito remain open to change and the process of slf-transformaion in both social experienc and ou engagements wih epesentations SS Because minor communities can acquis oth power and prevalence ‘of dominant percptions and epresetatios, Rickard ng argues that ‘forts mest be madeto tal prioritie one's diferent experienc of pre sentation, especialy at lates to wndrstanding the sl {extend hi the notion of perforin race nd ax agai the rome oe niet fan Ameren women epeaton fad Sree prey Peace ina tng th “tuna orvoring ae te deniyaleng it eT asul mage sos o expand acl agenda jo the aed ‘sh norma an sandrcton To ag heey olay rode prey py teats fe {Eland alent at ue norma spore aed ‘Sy map te Urtinateyanimportantasumption [aim to undermine hat sexand ur ihe aaa a ans meg Sap oti cc on eae thane of ener on OS mpTane fede son {hal sean dried pAb noord hissy on the ‘ales ose edhe dss ho iil ovals reason oe perms ef al od oe ot capa te sre! bene soon the rae af peo crm ex Tiel ica ose savy in se Ue etre he ual pe af ck women we cry ued ped trl pr ofthe em sch reel ie a THE nYPenSeXUNLETY OF RSTON /aNEREGHN OMEN championing pla s too simplistic. Hut if ee wo bad how can we tlk shout bath thes ad the epresentatons of gis and wotnen who are shaped by It Specially, how do we not discount those within sexwaly ‘oppresvstuations o disregard marginalized ies such s those of pr. tutes or third world women sex worker, who are mnmeditely assumed 18 vtmized and powers orton uni to consider shaping god "cial polit? While acknowledging that exe not simply good. what i we asume that sexi not ently bad iter ad that poor tied world women ae not owes inorder to expand cr knowledge about rae, sex, and representation in ways that account for the lives of women? In other words, what if sox cam be good and third world women can ase power Such quesions Gap ind extend our understandingof power and ethics each specific ane demands Ay clement of understanding politically productive perversity isp formance and it oe in constructing race, gender, ss, and represen tation. When we wrestle with images of hypesecil Asan/Amerian women, the posites of pesformance ae ever preset ia the proce of ‘what it means o act and to respond t being bound san objet and + subject ofsuch sexual projection, Rather than resis projections of hype sexuality Lam interested in aecepting how hypersexlascription is part of what forms ou very sel ecopnition every day and every minute. Tht |store the hypesexaliy of Asan wornen sto ret how We ate shapes by and rete wit hese mags, Rejecting hypersecaity as x ternal to Asian/Amercan woren something imposed enely by other, seems a equally insulicient at aceping it a entry coset diner zal t us" A more promising soliton ito develop etal Ieracy re tang not only how vsualty but lo sexuality and race secure meaning and organize reality history. fantasy, and ideology today. Performance oF the ability to work guns and with these image is part ofthe dyna process of representation islexpecally att bins the ac seal, 1nd gendered eperencs of Asi/Ameican women, Like Dorie Kondo, Josephine Lex, and Karen Shimalawa, aim to sxe performance pointedly—in order to capture the experience of ‘sutorshp and viewing 2s deeply private and sinltanously public set of sieving and ‘siting through the Hetng atu of living and moving Inuages with cial attention and energeti nguy.? am comnitd o ‘making my way inthe darknes ofthe theater where images eonjin very Powerfull wih the scenes of everyday if, Immsed in everyday cep resentations of serait, one may formulate who one andi not. One ako engage who one i sd tobe and who one maybe through ext representation, ‘sian and Avian American womans sexusies within visual culture produce both damaging and productive perversions asthe critical ment Jn the definition and rengition of Avan women inthe popula imag tion. The reception ofthe pope images of Asan women's sexuality ound in was that describea ede range of expresions and experincss that lacie plesure a dhe production of sexuality and desire a well the pun and violence in the experience of being led a hyperseal sex machin. Hyperseual representation of Asian women atl ex ess various experiences of rua, tron and pain aswel soy sel recognition, and allance for those who produce, consume, and ert ize these images By engaging there sou eral imerpeation, oF serwening-—in the ses of secing thm avid making sure study there may put thes ome images io the service of arteting how Arian? American women as subj and objects, ve enabled aswel as ited by sul and opi rege, “The embrace ofhypersexuly at policy productive perversity by viewer, producers, and rts attest to the dynamic feof race x, and visoaliy—as experiences tat need tobe tod, represented, and re

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