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Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State
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Description for Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 416 pages, 4 b&w photographs, 2 figures, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFK; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 31. Weight in Grams: 662.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Weight
699g
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822323228
SKU
V9780822323228
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99-1
About Kaplan
Caren Kaplan is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement, also published by Duke University Press. Norma Alarcón is Professor of Women’s Studies, Ethinic Studies, Spanish, and Portuguese at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Ninfomanía. Minoo ... Read more
Reviews for Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State
“A signal contribution to our current understanding of the gendered politics of national and global economies of desire, labour, capital, and representation. Though the question of woman and/in the nation is not new, it has never before been engaged on such a scale or with such an attentiveness to diverse disciplines, media, and theoretical positions.”—Parama Roy, author of Indian Traffic: ... Read more