Transnational America - Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms

Informationen zum Autor 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. 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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Inderpal Grewal
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 28.06.2005
• EAN: 9780822335443
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3544-3
• Pagine: 277
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Serie: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave: New Directions in W; Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva