1st Edition

Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Recognition, Equity, and AANHPI

130 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

130 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

130 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health addresses the sexual and reproductive health needs of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) women from a structural and intersectional perspective. AANHPI women in the United States have often been grouped together due to their race and gender, regardless of their specific communities’ diverse histories with the United States... Read more

Introduction  Chapter 1. Historic and Gendered Representations: Asian American and Pacific Islanders, Real and Imagined  Chapter 2. Just Representation in Data: Data Disaggregation, and Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health  Chapter 3. Self Representation: AANHPI Storytelling About Sexual and Reproductive Health  Chapter 4. Promoting Praxis  Appendix A: Focus Group Script and Survey  Appendix B: Selected National AANHPI Organizations

Biography

Karen J. Leong is Associate Professor of History at University of New Mexico. Her research explores what Asian American experiences reveal about the historical dynamic between U.S. national ideologies and the power of self-definition at the intersections of gender, race, class, and sexuality.

Kathy Nakagawa is Associate Professor of Asian Pacific American studies in the School of Social Transformation. Her research explores issues of inequity in education including the relationship between families and schools, parent involvement and school reform, charter schools, family literacy programs and racial literacy.

Aggie J. Yellow Horse is Associate Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on understanding how larger social forces "get under skin" to generate health inequities for racialized and minoritized peoples.