ABSTRACT
What is Pinayism? I have tape recorder in hand, armed with participant-observer research methodologies and theories of feminist standpoint epistemology, postcolonial-womanist deconstruction and difference, and bell hooksian ideas of radical possibility floating around in my mind. I head out to the New Park Mall in Newark, California to find out what local Pinays think of Pinay womanism and/or feminism. I thought if I went into this field site—the mall that can be called “the bastion of Pinays and Pinoys” and a place that was basically my teenage hangout nearly ten years ago—I would be able to approach Pinays and inquire about their opinions.
