Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 01:32:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Mimi  Nguyen <mqn9024-AT-is.nyu.edu>
Subject: Re: just a suggestion... -Reply


Mirangela asked for introductions, so here's mine (again): I'm working
through a myriad of issues, one of them being whether or not I can call
myself a "Third World" woman without constantly putting it in quotes, etc.
I was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and being a refugee from that
particularly "sore" point in the US collective memory living in the US
now is a particularly complex situation and is, for now, the springboard
for a lot of my work around migration/refugee-ism, citizenship, identity
formation, etc. New York University isn't exactly a stronghold of Asian
American Studies, however, altho' we just got a department this fall, and
neither is it particularly known for its feminist work (altho' I hear
there's plans in the works for an Institute of Gender and Sexuality
here). 

I too would love to participate in a reading about non-Western feminism.

I think an important piece in general to any discussion about "Third
World" Us-based women doing feminist work is Lata Mani's "Multiple
Mediations." And of course, Chandra Mohanty.

Mimi Nguyen
NYU
American Studies