CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Book Talk: Judy Tzu-Chun Wu- Moving Mountains: Asian American and Pacific Islander Feminisms and the 1977 National Women’s Conference.

Abstract

The 1977 National Women’s Conference is the first and only time that the U.S. federal government authorized funding to create a national women’s agenda. This book focuses on the Asian American and Pacific Islander women who participated in the pre-conference meetings that were held in every state and six territories as well as the national event in Houston. They also subsequently organized their own regional and national Asian Pacific American Women’s Conference in 1980. This work explores how racialized, Indigenous, and immigrant women envisioned pathways to liberation and justice. The book is being published on November 11, but I will be away on November 14.