Hope you can join us and support our Fil Am authors. Please circulate this invitation. Thanks. WordPress.com New post on Book Talk Seriesby PEB Two Filipino American Authors and Scholars will talk and discuss Filipinas, Feminism and Sex Dr. Celine Parreñas Shimizu, author and filmmaker Dr. Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, author and sociologist Saturday, August 4, 2012 2:00pm –4:30pm Echo Park Branch Library 1410 West Temple Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026 (213) 250-7808 for map/driving/transit http://www.lapl.org/branches/Branch.php?bID=8 Free library parking Book Talk is Free and Open to the public. Seats are limited and RSVP is requested. No Host Dinner to follow. RSVP required. Tel (310) 514 - 9139 or email: [email protected] Dr. Rhacel Salazar Parreñas is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California. She is known for her work on women’s labor and migration in economic globalization . Her latest and groundbreaking book, Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo (2012, Stanford University Press) won the 2012 Distinguished Book Award, Labor and Labor Movements Section from the American Sociological Association. The book describes the experience of “indentured mobility” among migrant Filipina hostesses and bridges current discussions on human trafficking and “gender and migration”. Her other books are Servants of Globalization: Women. Migration and Domestic Work (2001, Stanford University Press); Children of Global Migration, Transnational Families and Gendered Woes (2003, Stanford University Press); The Force of Domesticity: Filipina Migrants and Globalization (2008, New York University Press). For more information on Dr. Parreñas, visit: http://dornsife.usc.edu/soci/rhacel-salazar-parreas/
Filmmaker and film scholar Dr. Celine Parreñas Shimizu is Professor of Film and Performance Studies in the Asian American, Comparative Literature, Feminist and Film and Media Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her two books are The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene (2007, Duke University Press) which won the Cultural Studies Book Prize from the Association of Asian American Studies andStraitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies (2012, Stanford University Press). Her films include Mahal Means Love and Expensive (1993); Super Flip (1997); The Fact of Asian Women (2004) and Birthright (2009)--all available from ProgressiveFilms.com. Her Uprooting Plants Her (1995) is available from Third World Newsreel TWN.org. For more information on Dr. Shimizu and her work, visit: http://www.asamst.ucsb.edu/people/academic/celine-parreñ-shimizu The event is part of the ongoing community outreach program of Philippine Expressions Bookshop and is co-sponsored by Echo Park Library Friends headed by Joselyn Geaga-Rosenthal, President. PEB | July 12, 2012 at 9:06 am | Categories: Book Talk Series, Events| URL: http://wp.me/p2jUZM-a8 Comment See all comments Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://philippineexpressionsbookshop.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/book-talk-series/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com Please contact <[email protected]> if this email is received garbled. Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Filipino Librarians" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/filipinolibrarians?hl=en.
