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Book SynopsisShows how the complex interplay of feminism, nationalism, empire, and modernity helped shape conceptions of the transpacific Filipina
Trade Review“Cruz’s project has many strengths. . . .
Transpacific Femininities provides a nuanced perspective to existing literature on women’s history, colonialism in the Pacific, Asian American studies, and transnational studies at large.” -- Joanne L. Rondilla * Journal of Asian Studies *
"This book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars in Asian, American and Gender Studies, and across the disciplines of Sociology, Geography, History, and Anthropology. It is a rich historical account that does a lot of conceptual work with great subtlety.
Transpacific Femininities is written to be widely accessible and could be easily used in a wide range of undergraduate and graduate classes." -- Geraldine Pratt * Pacific Affairs *
“Cruz’s analysis is challenging and often subtle, for, as she maintains, the modern woman in the Philippines was not always simply westernized but was a blended cultural hybrid…Readers in the field of ethnic feminist literature will appreciate her annotations, her summaries of hard to find literary texts, and her discussion of the arguments of other scholars.” -- Frederick J. Augustyn * Journal of American Culture *
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Transpacific Femininities re-frames and expands the boundaries of the study of race, gender, and empire in Philippine and Filipino American studies in a compelling transnational and global context. It is essential reading for students and scholars of Philippine, Asian American, and gender and women’s studies.” -- Catherine Ceniza Choy * Journal of American Ethnic History *
"A GOAT work of scholarship and criticism, with a staggeringly wide historical scope and a generous, approachable readability. Denise Cruz brings us from the colonial era to the Cold War, and gives us a much-needed feminist historicist approach to thinking about everything from national heroism, to class, colorism, and the ways in which the costs of war and empire are often borne on the bodies of women." -- Elaine Castillo * Electric Lit *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction. Transpacific Filipinas, Made and Remade 1
1. Cartographies of the Transpacific Filipina 31
2. Nationalism, Modernity, and Feminism's Haunted Intersections 67
3. Plotting a Transpacific Filipina's Destiny: Romances of Elite Exceptionalism 111
4. New Order Practicality and Guerrilla Domesticity: The Pacific War's Filipina 149
5. "Pointing to the Heart": Cold War Makings of the Transpacific Filipina 185
Epilogue. Transpacific Femininities, Multimedia Archives, and the Global Marketplace 219
Notes 237
Bibliography 261
Index 283
