Traffic in Asian Women

Traffic in Asian Women
Author: Laura Hyun Yi Kang
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2020-08-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1478012285

In Traffic in Asian Women Laura Hyun Yi Kang demonstrates that the figure of "Asian women" functions as an analytic with which to understand the emergence, decline, and permutation of U.S. power/knowledge at the nexus of capitalism, state power, global governance, and knowledge production throughout the twentieth century. Kang analyzes the establishment, suppression, forgetting, and illegibility of the Japanese military "comfort system" (1932–1945) within that broader geohistorical arc. Although many have upheld the "comfort women" case as exemplary of both the past violation and the contemporary empowerment of Asian women, Kang argues that it has profoundly destabilized the imaginary unity and conceptual demarcation of the category. Kang traces how "Asian women" have been alternately distinguished and effaced as subjects of the traffic in women, sexual slavery, and violence against women. She also explores how specific modes of redress and justice were determined by several overlapping geopolitical and economic changes ranging from U.S.-guided movements of capital across Asia and the end of the Cold War to the emergence of new media technologies that facilitated the global circulation of "comfort women" stories.

Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics

Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics
Author: Lynn Fujiwara
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2018-12-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0295744375

Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics brings together groundbreaking essays that speak to the relationship between Asian American feminisms, feminist of color work, and transnational feminist scholarship. This collection, featuring work by both senior and rising scholars, considers topics including the politics of visibility, histories of Asian American participation in women of color political formations, accountability for Asian American “settler complicities” and cross-racial solidarities, and Asian American community-based strategies against state violence as shaped by and tied to women of color feminisms. Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics provides a deep conceptual intervention into the theoretical underpinnings of Asian American studies; ethnic studies; women’s, gender, and sexual studies; as well as cultural studies in general.

Gendered Entanglements

Gendered Entanglements
Author: Ragnhild Lund
Publisher: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9788776941574

The overall objective of this volume is to revisit gender as a concept that can engage simultaneously with change and continuity in today's Asia, but with greater intellectual reflexivity to examine multiple, intersecting, and complex dimensions of identity and difference, and formerly unacknowledged sources of social power from institutions and their emerging discourses. Individual chapters, written by gender scholars from Europe and Asia, critically examine the concept of gender in the context of emerging development issues relating to four broad thematic areas: 'Gender over Time', 'Power, Policy and Practices', 'Environment and Resources', and 'Justice and Human Rights'. In so doing, they also address how gender has been changed, both as a normative process influencing social roles and relations and as an object and/or a concept of research.

Women's Studies Quarterly (97:3-4)

Women's Studies Quarterly (97:3-4)
Author: Tuzyline Jita Allan
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1997
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781558611696

Authoritative, creative, and groundbreaking original literary essays about an important emerging area of study.

Women's Studies Quarterly (96:3-4)

Women's Studies Quarterly (96:3-4)
Author: Liza Fiol-Matta
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1996-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781558611610

A focus on the state of women's studies in two-year community colleges, presenting the results of two curriculum transformation projects that took place at over twenty community colleges.

The Rani of Jhansi

The Rani of Jhansi
Author: Harleen Singh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2014-06-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316092992

Colonial texts often read the Indian woman warrior as a cultural anomaly, but Indian texts find recourse in the mythological examples of the female warrior. Rani Lakshmi Bai's remaking transforms the mythologically viable, yet socially marginal, figure of a woman in battle into bounded and meaningful feminine roles such as daughter, wife, mother, and queen. Women and the home were integral to how nationalist discourse envisioned the modern, yet traditional, Indian nation. The Rani remains a metaphoric referent of the home, and is an abiding symbol of the nation, reinvented as authority, power, and tradition. The depictions of the Rani signals what is at stake in representing the unrestricted woman in the public sphere. The book extends the discussion on what constitutes the historical archive of the gendered colonial subject and the postcolonial rebel by being attentive to the vexed figures produced within the competing ideologies of colonialism and nationalism.

Women's Studies

Women's Studies
Author: Linda Krikos
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 851
Release: 2004-08-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313072930

This truly monumental work maps the literature of women's studies, covering thousands of titles and Web sites in 19 subject areas published between 1985 and 1999. Intended as a reference and collection development tool, this bibliography provides a guide for women's studies information for each title along with a detailed, often evaluative review. The annotations summarize each work's content, its importance or contribution to women's studies, and its relationship to other titles on the subject. Core titles and titles that are out of print are noted, and reviews indicate which titles are appropriate as texts or supplemental texts. This definitive guide to the literature of women's studies is a must-purchase for academic libraries that support women's studies programs, and it is a useful addition to any academic or public library that endeavors to represent the field. A team of subject specialists has taken on the immense task of documenting publications in the area of women's studies in the last decades of the 20th century. The result is this truly monumental work, which maps the field, covering thousands of titles and Web sites in 19 subject areas published between 1985 and 1999. Intended as a reference and collection development tool, this bibliography provides a guide for women's studies information for each title along with a detailed, often evaluative review. The annotations summarize each work's content, its importance or contribution to women's studies, and its relationship to other titles on the subject. Most reviews cite and describe similar and contrasting titles, substantially extending the coverage. Core titles and titles that are out of print are noted, and reviews indicate which titles are appropriate as texts or supplemental texts. Taking up where the previous volume by Loeb, Searing, and Stineman left off, this is the definitive guide to the literature of women's studies. It is a must purchase for academic libraries that support women's studies programs; and a welcome addition to any academic or public library that endeavors to represent the field.

South Asian Feminisms

South Asian Feminisms
Author: Ania Loomba
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2012-03-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 082235179X

This collection intervenes in key areas of feminist scholarship and activism in contemporary South Asia, particularly India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, while asking how this investigation might enrich feminist theorizing and practice globally.