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Two Filipino American authors and scholars will talk and discuss
Filipinas, Feminism and Sex
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Dr. Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, author & sociologist
Dr. Celine Parreñas Shimizu, author & filmmaker
Saturday, August 4, 2012
2:00pm –4:30pm
Echo Park Branch Library 1410 West Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026
(213) 250-7808 Free library parking www.lapl.org/branches/Branch.php?bID=8
Book Talk is Free and Open to the public. Seats are limited. RSVP is requested.
No Host Dinner to follow. RSVP required: (310) 514-9139 or linda@philippineexpressionsbookshop.com
Dr. Rhacel Salazar Parreñas is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California. She is known for her work on women’s labor and migration in economic globalization. Her latest and groundbreaking book, Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo (2012, Stanford University Press) won the 2012 Distinguished Book Award, Labor and Labor Movements Section from the American Sociological Association. The book describes the experience of “indentured mobility” among migrant Filipina hostesses and bridges current discussions on human trafficking and “gender and migration.” Her other books are Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration and Domestic Work (2001, Stanford University Press); Children of Global Migration, Transnational Families and Gendered Woes (2003, Stanford University Press); The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization (2008, New York University Press). For more information, visit: http://dornsife.usc.edu/soci/rhacel-salazar-parreas/
Filmmaker and film scholar Dr. Celine Parreñas Shimizu is Professor of Film and Performance Studies in the Asian American, Comparative Literature, Feminist and Film and Media Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her two books are The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene (2007, Duke University Press) which won the Cultural Studies Book Prize from the Association of Asian American Studies and Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies (2012, Stanford University Press). Her films include Mahal Means Love and Expensive (1993); Super Flip (1997); The Fact of Asian Women (2004) and Birthright (2009) — available from ProgressiveFilms.com. Her Uprooting Plants Her (1995) is available from Third World Newsreel TWN.org. For more information, visit: http://www.asamst.ucsb.edu/people/academic/celine-parreñ-shimizu
The event is part of the ongoing community outreach program of Philippine Expressions Bookshop
and is co-sponsored by Echo Park Library Community Group (Friends) headed by Joselyn Geaga-Rosenthal, President.
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