Labor, laws, and love. Yen Le Espiritu explores how racist and gendered
labor conditions and immigration laws have affected relations between
and among Asian American women and men. Asian American Men and Women
documents how the historical and contemporary oppression of Asians in
the United States has (re)structured the balance of power between Asian
American women and men and shaped their struggles to create and maintain
social institutions and systems of meaning. Espiritu emphasizes how
race, gender, and class, as categories of difference, do not parallel
but instead intersect and confirm one other.