Abstract: This article examines four picturebook biographies featuring Chinese American women. Each book introduces intersectionality among social categories—race, gender, and class—and emphasizes them differently. With a focus on different categories, the stories deliver different information to readers about the obstacles and challenges that Chinese American women have faced. In examining intersectionality, readers thus should examine which social category is emphasized and which is not mentioned. Picturebook biographies about Chinese American women contribute to the children's nonfiction genre since there is a lack of Asian women's stories. These stories introduce children to the unique life experiences of Chinese American women, teach them life lessons, and make Asian American women visible in the womanism movement in the United States.
Wee et al. (Thu,) studied this question.