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Between woman and nation : nationalisms, transnational feminisms, and the state

Caren Kaplan (Editor), Norma Alarcón (Editor), Minoo Moallem (Editor)
Homeland, 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.
Print Book, English, 1999
Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 1999
Aufsatzsammlung
viii, 407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780822323228, 9780822323020, 0822323222, 0822323028
40267291
Acknowledgments 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 Works Cited Index Contributors