Grewal / Kaplan / Wiegman Transnational America

Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8654-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 293 Seiten

Reihe: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

A study of South Asian Americans which views both their identity and that of America as constructed transnationally between the U.S. and India.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grewal, Inderpal

Kaplan, Caren

Wiegman, Robyn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Neoliberal Citizenship: The Governmentality of Rights and Consumer Culture 1

1. Becoming American: The Novel and the Diaspora 35

2. Traveling Barbie: Indian Transnationalities and the Global Consumer 80

3. "Women's Rights as Human Rights": The Transnational Production of Global Feminist Subjects 121

4. Gendering Refugees: New National/Transnational Subjects 158

5. Transnational America: Race and Gender after 9/11 196

Notes 221

Bibliography 241

Index 267

Über Autor(innen)

Inderpal Grewal is Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire, and the Cultures of Travel (also published by Duke University Press); coauthor of An Introduction to Women’s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World; and coeditor of Scattered Hegemonies: Postmodernity and Transnational Feminist Practices.