In your readings, both Aki Uchida and Kathleen Uno have argued that Orientalism, the stereotyping of Asian/Asian American women as submissive, less liberated than Asian women, and submissive, have been exaggerated and largely perpetuated by Western scholars and experiences. Less examined have been the way Asian/Asian American women have had influence, power and agency inside their households/families as mothers, wives, sisters, daughters and grandmothers.