The Hypersexuality of Race
ISBN: 9780822389941
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Duke University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Erotic films; Asian American women in motion pictures.; Women in motion pictures.; Asians in motion pictures.;

A study of the Asian woman as sexual icon in visual culture.


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).

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