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Book SynopsisHomeland, country, region, locality, and globalisation: all words whose definitions in turn affect the definition of the word "woman." This title includes essays that discuss women in diverse locales - ranging from Quebec to Beirut.
Trade Review“A signal contribution to our current understanding of the gendered politics of national and global economies of desire, labour, capital, and representation. Though the question of woman and/in the nation is not new, it has never before been engaged on such a scale or with such an attentiveness to diverse disciplines, media, and theoretical positions.”—Parama Roy, author of
Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India“This is a superb collection, deftly edited and wonderfully argued. Individually, the contributors expand the scope of transnationality studies to include the Middle East and Latin America. The volume as a whole focuses on important analytics: gendered imaginaries in nationalism, regulatory practices, and globablized feminism. The editors’ argument for immanent critique is a useful contribution to thinking and teaching feminism in an international frame.”—Tani E. Barlow, University of Washington
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Between Woman and Nation / Norma Alarcon, Caren Kaplan, and Minoo Moallem
I. Whose Imagined Community?
El desorden, Nationalism, and Chicana/o Aesthetics / Laura Elisa Perez
Bloody Metaphors and Other Allegories of the Ordinary / Elspeth Probyn
Chicana Feminism: In the Tracks of "The" Native Woman / Norma Alarcon
Re-Imagining Chicana Urban Identities in the Public Sphere,
Cool Chuca Style / Rosa Linda Fregoso
A Guest at the Wedding: Honor, Memory, and (National) Desire in Michel Khleife's
Wedding in Galilee / Mary N. Layoun
II. The Production of Nationness: Reading Regulatory Practices
Seduction and the Ruses of Power / Saidiya Hartman
From Nation-Church to Nation-State: Evolving Sex-Gender Relations in Quebec Society / Danielle Juteau
Women Between Nation and State in Lebanon / Suad Joseph
Relational Positionalities of Nationalisms, Racisms, and Feminisms / Daiva K. Stasiulis
Feminism-in-Nationalism: The Gendered Subaltern at the Yucatan Feminist Congresses of 1916 / Emma Perez
III. Transnational Subjects of Feminism: Critical Interventions in an Era of Globalization
Multicultural Nationalism and the Poetics of Inauguration / Minoo Moallem and Iain A. Boal
"Chicana! Rican? No, Chicana Riquena!" Refashioning the Transnational Connection / Angie Chabram-Dernersesian
Fabricating Masculinity: Gender, Race, and Nation in a Transnational Frame / Dorinne Kondo
Transnationalism, Feminism, and Fundamentalism / Minoo Moallem
Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies: Beyond the Marxism/Poststructuralism/Feminism Divides / Caren Kaplan and Inderpal Grewal
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