Mei Li Inouye

MEI LI INOUYE {[email protected]} is a doctoral candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University and has an MFA in creative writing. Her research explores democratic community formation, transnational exchanges and appropriations, gender and sexuality, genre and media boundary crossings and transformations, and the mediating and critical role of memory in modern and contemporary Chinese literature, film, dance, theater, and visual culture.

Gender Structures within Seasons of Change: Stories of Transition | Sandra Clark Jergensen and Shelah Mastny Miner, eds. Seasons of Change: Stories of Transition

Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 1

Aptly titled, Seasons of Change: Stories of Transition is a well-curated collection of prose and poetry featuring a specific demographic of Mormon women who read and contribute to the literary journal and blog Segullah. Eleven thoughtfully arranged categories containing fifty-eight voices capture a diversity of experiences that occasionally touch on issues of class, sexual orientation, ability, race, and ethnicity, but primarily plumb the life and death observations and gendered experiences of a middle-class swath of well-educated, able-bodied, heteronormative, married women from different age groups and North American geographies (their rare references to race or ethnicity also suggest racial homogeneity among them).