Transnational America - Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms

Informationen zum Autor Inderpal Grewal Klappentext A study of South Asian Americans which views both their identity and that of America as constructed transnationally between the U.S. and India. Zusammenfassung A study of South Asian Americans which views both their identity and that of America as constructed transnationally between the U.S. and India. 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

Product details

• Authors: Grewal, Inderpal Grewal, Inderpal Grewal
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2005
• EAN: 9780822335320
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3532-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave: New Directions in W; Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education