Queering the global Filipina body : contested nationalisms in the Filipina/o diaspora

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    • Velasco, Gina K.

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Queering the global Filipina body : contested nationalisms in the Filipina/o diaspora

Gina K. Velasco

(The Asian American experience, 138)

University of Illinois Press, c2020

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-152) and index

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Contemporary popular culture stereotypes Filipina women as sex workers, domestic laborers, mail order brides, and caregivers. These figures embody the gendered and sexual politics of representing the Philippine nation in the Filipina/o diaspora. Gina K. Velasco explores the tensions within Filipina/o American cultural production between feminist and queer critiques of the nation and popular nationalism as a form of resistance to neoimperialism and globalization.   Using a queer diasporic analysis, Velasco examines the politics of nationalism within Filipina/o American cultural production  to consider an essential question: can a queer and feminist imagining of the diaspora reconcile with gendered tropes of the Philippine nation? Integrating a transnational feminist analysis of globalized gendered labor with a consideration of queer cultural politics, Velasco envisions forms of feminist and queer diasporic belonging, while simultaneously foregrounding nationalist movements as vital instruments of struggle.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Global Filipina Body Chapter 1. Mapping Diasporic Nationalisms: The Filipina/o American Balikbayan in the Philippines Chapter 2. Imagining the Filipina Trafficked Woman/Sex Worker: The Politics of Filipina/o American Solidarity Chapter 3. Performing the Filipina Mail Order Bride: Queer Neoliberalism, Affective Labor, and Homonationalism Chapter 4. El Otro Encuentro: Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa’s “Neo-Queer Precolonial Imagining” Conclusion: Queer Necropolitics and the Afterlife of U.S. Imperialism Notes Bibliography Index

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