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Fetishized : a reckoning with yellow fever, feminism, and beauty /

A deeply personal memoir-in-essays, reckoning with being an object of Asian fetish and how media, pop culture and colonialism contributed to the oversexualization of Asian women, from Kaila Yu, former pin-up model and lead singer of Nylon Pink.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yu, Kaila, 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Crown, [2025].
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Yu, Kaila, > 1979-
Women singers > United States > Biography.
Women rock musicians > United States > Biography.
Models (Persons) > United States > Biography.
Asian American women > Biography.
Asian American women > Public opinion.
Asian American women > Sexual behavior.
Nylon Pink (Musical group)
Orientalism > United States > History > 21st century.
Table of Contents:
  • Author's note
  • Introduction
  • Daddy
  • Geisha
  • Butterfly
  • ABGs
  • China dolls
  • Bad Asian
  • Bunnies
  • Exotic
  • Race queens
  • Not Lucy Liu
  • "Candy coated sugar sex"
  • Slanted
  • Lolitas
  • Unicorn
  • A reckoning
  • Deep
  • Sources and additional reading
  • A not entirely comprehensive list of fetishized portrayals of Asian women in mainstream media.