Between Woman and Nation by Caren Kaplan

Between Woman and Nation by Caren Kaplan

In Between 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 examines constructions of nationalism and communities whose practices complicate these constructions. The second section discusses regulations of particular nation-states and how they affect the lives of women, while the third presents studies of transnational identity formation, in which contributors critique ideas such as “multicultural nationalism” and “global feminism.” Arguing provocatively that such movements and concepts inadequately represent women’s interests, contributors examine how such beliefs and their attendant organizations may actually bolster the very formations they ought to subvert. In its demonstration of the critical possibilities of feminist alliances across discrepant and distinct material conditions, Between Woman and Nation will make a unique contribution to women’s studies, feminist theory, studies of globalization and transnationalism, ethnic studies, and cultural studies.

“A signal contribution to our current understanding of the gendered politics of national and global economies of desire, labour, capital, and representationThough 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: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India
“This is a superb collection, deftly edited and wonderfully argued. Individually, the contributors expand the scope of transnationality studies to include the Middle East and Latin America. The volume as a whole focuses on important analytics: gendered imaginaries in nationalism, regulatory practices, and globablized feminism. The editors’ argument for immanent critique is a useful contribution to thinking and teaching feminism in an international frame.”—Tani E. Barlow, University of Washington

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 Moallem is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at San Francisco State University.

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ISBN 13	9780822323228
ISBN 10	0822323222
Title	Between Woman and Nation
Author	Caren Kaplan
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Duke University Press
Year published	1999-07-06
Number of pages	416
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