Mimi Yang

Carthage College United States of America

Mimi Yang, Ph.D., Professor Emerita at Carthage College, Wisconsin, U.S.A., is an experienced academic editor. Throughout her scholarly career, she has published (in English and Spanish) a wide array of subjects in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Her works on women’s suffrage were published in London and New York, gaining international attention. Her work on the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo remains a cited reference after almost three decades. She authored the book “Tricultural Personality: A Paradigm Crossing the English, Spanish, and Chinese Speaking Worlds” (Edwin Mellen, 2014), and edited the book “Multilingualism in Its Multiple Dimensions” (IntechOpen, 2024). In addition, she is a regular contributor to the OP-Ed columns in the “Kenosha News” and the “Journal Times” on pressing social, racial, and historical issues.

3books edited

4chapters authored

Latest work with IntechOpen by Mimi Yang

Why is a woman who fights for gender equality considered a feminist? On the contrary, if a man seeks the same equal rights between the male and the female, why does he not have an “ist” attached to him? “Ist,” like chauvinist or sexist, comes to modify him when he wants to be superior to women, that is, when he feels entitled to gender inequality with him as the prime and privileged sex. These taken-for-granted questions spark debates about the socially and culturally constructed gender hierarchy; they also ignite inquiries, critiques, and discussions about long-held but rarely challenged gender roles across cultures. This book juxtaposes gender roles with gender equality in an in-depth examination of how and why the two clash and, at the same time, re-create one another in confronting and competing ways. The chapter authors, representing a diverse range of disciplines and continents, scrutinize histories, cultures, societies, geopolitics, and ideologies that contour and configure sexism, feminism, and postmodernism. The book takes readers into a deconstructive process that deduces and distills the notion and practice of gender equality from gender roles across time and space.

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Gender Roles vs. Gender Equality

Edited by Mimi Yang

Books edited

Translating Words, Transferring Wisdom, Traversing Worlds

Edited by Mimi Yang

Multilingualism in Its Multiple Dimensions

Edited by Mimi Yang

Chapters authored

Tracing the Roots of Anti-Chinese Sentiments in US History

By Mimi Yang

To understand and confront the ongoing Asian/Chinese hate in the USA as another pandemic virus, this article digs into the root cause in history, as anti-Chinese sentiments are nothing new but invariably in a new context and with a new trigger. A close examination of how a racial hierarchy was constructed by the dominant group sets the stage for the study. The paradoxical relationship between the American ideal of equality and the racial hierarchy is discussed in depth. In doing so, we focus on the Chinese experience in the nineteenth century—the construction of the Transcontinental Rails and the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882–1943)—to argue that the roots of anti-Chinese sentiments rest in the racial hierarchy as well as its coexistence with the lofty ideal of freedom and equality.

Part of the book: Global Perspectives on Non-Governmental Organizations

Introductory Chapter: Multilingualism in the Linguistic Empire of the English Language

By Mimi Yang

Part of the book: Multilingualism in Its Multiple Dimensions

Introductory Chapter: The Translator’s Third Eye

By Mimi Yang

Part of the book: Translating Words, Transferring Wisdom, Traversing Worlds

Introductory Chapter: Elizabeth I – Turning Gender Roles into Gender Equality

By Mimi Yang

Part of the book: Gender Roles vs. Gender Equality