Professor Shimizu Discusses Historical Fetishization of Asian Women, Present-Day Consequences

CITYLINE (TORONTO) -- “We are challenging behavior and beliefs that have not been exposed or confronted in a very long time.” Eileen Park-Robertson, Celine Parreñas Shimizu and Kimberley Wong discuss hyper-sexualization and violence against Asian women.

“Historically, the law and popular culture worked together to define Asian women’s sexuality as essentially one they didn’t own,” said Shimizu, professor and director of the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University.