ABSTRACT
This essay I write as an "Asian" woman owes its presence to an invitation from Anglo-American feminists. The agency which permits my presence in this text has an authority that legitimizes me and that my presence in turn validates. Its authority presides because certain epistemic bodies have privileged it to speak for women. So I have permission to speak, but permission to speak as and for a minority; not as an individual which is an ideologically majority construct in the United States, but as a re-presentation of a minoritism of specified color and race.
