But Asian American critical feminism remains hampered by the divide between practice and theory. If Asian American feminist theory feels stuck in the first wave, and if the mere mention of the Asian woman these days invokes critical fatigue, it is partially due to this stubborn gulf, not to mention the ongoing suspicion of so-called Western, universalizing theory, even though, when it comes to an other who has been deeply woven into and out of the history of Western aesthetic history, it is misleading and unproductive to continue to think in terms of Western abstraction versus Eastern reality.
