Fetishized by Kaila Yu

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Fetishized by Kaila Yu



General:

Name: Fetishized by Kaila Yu
Format: epub
Size: 3.3 MB

Book:

Title: Fetishized
Author: Kaila Yu
Language: English
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Multi-Cultural, Sociology, Nonfiction
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 9784396763459
Total pages: 156 str.

Description:

A "raw and lyrical" (New York Times) memoir-in-essays from former pinup model and lead singer of Nylon Pink Kaila Yu, reckoning with being an object of Asian fetish and how media, pop culture, and colonialism contributed to the oversexualization of Asian women.
No one fetishized Kaila Yu more than she fetishized herself. As a young girl, she dreamt of beauty. But none of the beautiful women on television looked like her. In the late '90s and early 2000s Asian women were often reduced to overtly sexual and submissive caricatures-the geishas of the book-turned-film Memoirs of a Geisha; the lewd twins, Fook Mi and Fook Yu, in Austin Powers in Goldmember; Papillon Soo Soo's sex worker character in the cult Vietnam War movie Full Metal Jacket; and pin-up goddess Sung-Hi Lee. Meanwhile, the "girls next door" were always white. Within that narrow framework, Kaila internalized a painful conclusion: The only way someone who...

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