Excerpt from Moving Mountains: Asian American and Pacific Islander Feminisms and the 1977 National Women’s Conference by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Excerpt from Moving Mountains: Asian American and Pacific Islander Feminisms and the 1977 National Women’s Conference by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
- March 19, 2026
- Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, history and Long Institute affiliate, University of Washington Press, March 19, 2026 (Book excerpt)
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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 [UC Irvine Chancellor’s Professor of history and Asian American Studies, Long U.S.-China Institute affiliate] and Adrienne A. Winans center the more than eighty Asian American and Pacific Islander delegates who politically mobilized around women’s rights and other issues to transform their communities and their status in the nation-state.
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