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

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

edited by Caren Kaplan, Norma Alarcón, and Minoo Moallem

Duke University Press, 1999

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-396) and index

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InBetween Woman and Nation constructions such as nationalism, homeland, country, region, and locality are for the first time examined in the context of gender. The contributors-leading scholars of ethnicity, transnationalism, globalization, and feminist theory-are united in their determination to locate and describe the performative space of interactions between woman and nation. These are interactions, claim the contributors, that cannot be essentialized. This interdisciplinarily collection investigates women in diverse locales-ranging from Quebec to Beirut. The contributors consider such subjects as Yucatan feminism, Islamic fundamentalisms, Canadian gender formations, historic Chicana/o struggles, and Israeli/Palestinian conflicts. Divided into three parts, the collection first examines constructions of nationalism and communities whose practices complicate these constructions. The second section discusses regulations of particular nation-states and how they affect the lives of women, while the third presents studies of transnational identity formation, in which contributors critique ideas such as "multicultural nationalism" and "global feminism." Arguing provocatively that such movements and concepts inadequately represent women's interests, contributors examine how such beliefs and their attendant organizations may actually bolster the very formations they ought to subvert. In its demonstration of the critical possibilities of feminist alliances across discrepant and distinct material conditions, Between Woman and Nation will make a unique contribution to women's studies, feminist theory, studies of globalization and transnationalism, ethnic studies, and cultural studies.

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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

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