Fetishized (Hardcover)

Kaila Yu

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, New York, 2025

0593728017 / 9780593728017

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Hardcover. "Honest, raw, and beautiful."-Aiko Tanaka, comedian and actress, Fast and Furious: Tokyo DriftA deeply personal memoir-in-essays from former pinup model and lead singer of Nylon Pink Kaila Yu, reckoning with being an object of Asian fetishism and how media, pop culture, and colonialism contributed to the oversexualization of Asian women.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.AN NPR AND DEBUTIFUL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARNo 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 looked like her could have value or be considered beautiful and desirable was to sexualize herself.Blending vulnerable stories from Yu's life with incisive cultural critique and history, Fetishized is a memoir-in-essays exploring feminism, beauty, yellow fever, and the roles pop culture and colonialism played in shaping pervasive and destructive stereotypes about Asian women and their bodies. Yu reflects on the women in media who influenced her, the legacy of U.S. occupation in shaping Western perceptions of Asian women, her own experiences in the pinup and import modeling industry, auditioning for TV and film roles that perpetuated dehumanizing stereotypes, and touring the world with her band in revealing outfits. She recounts altering her body to conform to Western beauty standards, allowing men to treat her like a sex object, and the emotional toll and trauma of losing her sense of self in the pursuit of the image she thought the world wanted.Candid and intimate, Fetishized is a personal journey of self-love and healing. It's both a searing indictment of the violence of objectification and a tender exploration of the broken relationship so many of us have with beauty, desire, and our own bodies. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Titel
Fetishized (Hardcover)
Autor
Kaila Yu
Verlag
Random House USA Inc, New York
Erscheinungsjahr
2025
Zustand
new
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0593728017
ISBN-13
9780593728017

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