Moving Mountains: Asian American and Pacific Islander Feminisms and the 1977 National Women's Conference

Illuminates a transformational event in the development of Asian American and Pacific Islander feminisms

In November 1977, over twenty thousand participants, mostly women, gathered in Houston for the first and only US National Women’s Conference, funded by the federal government with the goal of creating a national women’s agenda. In Moving Mountains, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Adrienne Winans center the more than eighty Asian American and Pacific Islander delegates who politically mobilized aroun...