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"U.S. Feminisms in a Global Context" with Prof. Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
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This talk argues for the importance of globalizing the study of U.S. feminism. International events such as war and colonization as well as the transnational movement of people, ideas, and goods have shaped who becomes a feminist in the U.S. and their ideas about feminism. The interconnections between the global, national, and local will be analyzed by focusing on U.S. women's activism in relation to political citizenship, economic equality, and sexual liberation.
This event is organized in coordination with the Organization of American Historians and is open to the general public! Questions? Contact sps-studentlife@columbia.edu
Dress Casual (jeans ok)
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Prof. Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Director of the Humanities Center Professor of Asian American studies
University of California, Irvine
https://www.oah.org/lectures/lecturers/view/1437/judy-tzu-chun-wu/
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu is a professor of Asian American studies and the director of the Humanities Center at the University of California, Irvine. She specializes in Asian American, immigration, comparative racialization, women's, gender, and sexuality histories. She is the author of Dr. Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity (2005), a biography of the first American-born Chinese woman physician, and Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era (2013), which examines the international travels of American antiwar activists during the U.S. War in Viet Nam and the political inspiration that decolonizing Asia offered to American radicals. She coedits a book series with Brill Press, Gendering the Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire, and Race, and its inaugural volume Gendering the Trans-Pacific World (2017). She also coedited Women's America: Refocusing the Past (8th edition, 2015). She is the current coeditor of Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000, a major online resource in U.S. women's history, and the editor for Amerasia Journal, the oldest journey for the field of Asian American Studies. With Gwendolyn Mink, she is currently writing a political biography of Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first woman of color in Congress and the namesake for Title IX.