ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes directions in which second- and foreign-language education as a discipline needs to be re-visioned and reshaped. The dearth of research in this area stands in contrast to the amount of research published on the systematic marginalization of women in higher education and marks a significant absence of serious public attention to the marginalization of Asian women faculty in second- and foreign-language education. Almost all of the lived experiences point to a common pattern of gendered and racialized task and labor segregation; namely, Asian women faculty are often assigned to labor-intensive administrative and teaching duties. The experiences and activities of the majority of frontline education workers (typically female classroom teachers) do not have a chance to enter the ranks of prestigious mainstream theories and research, as frequently they are not given the institutional resources, time, and opportunities to theorize their experiences and share and publish them in the discipline’s prestigious journals.
