Celine Parreñas Shimizu is Associate Professor of Asian American, Film, and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a filmmaker whose movies include The Fact of Asian Women (2002), which won four national festival awards; Super Flip (1997); and Her Uprooting Plants Her (1995).
Acknowledgments ix
1. The Hypersexuality of Asian/American Women: Toward a Politically
Productive Perversity on Screen and Scene 1
2. The Bind of Representation: Performing and Consuming Hypersexuality in
Miss Saigon 30
3. The Sexual Bonds of Racial Stardom: Asian American Femme Fatales in
Hollywood 58
4. Racial Threat or Racial Treat? Performing Yellowface Sex Acts in Stag
Films, 1920–34 102
5. Queens of Anal, Double, Trip, and the Gangbang: Producing Asian/American
Feminism in Pornography, 1940s–1990s 140
6. Sex Tourists with Movie Cameras and Prostitutes without Movie Cameras:
Politicizing the Bottom in Southeast Asian Sex Tourist Movies 185
7. The Political Power of Hypersexuality in Asian American Feminist Films
226
8. New Horizons in Race-Positive Sexuality 267
Notes 275
Bibliography 301
Index 325
