Abstract
Japanese American women are members of a multiple minority whose experiences are shaped by more than two systems, mainly gender and ethnicity. Since 1980s, discussions have been continuing on the limitations of monocausal approach (ethnicity-only or gender-only) and additive approach for analyzing minority women by minority feminist researchers. They argued that the micro level experiences of minority women should be understood from an intersection of various social locations and that we need to conceptualize a simultaneity of race, gender, and class which are interrelated, axes of social structures. Taking these arguments into consideration, this article discusses an identity of Japanese-American Christian women as an on-going process of self-definition which is simultaneously affected by gender, ethnicity, and religion. It suggests that the process of self-definition is on its way by reconstructing existing discourses in feminism and ethnic studies, and Christian teachings.
