Gendered citizenships: transnational perspectives on knowledge production, political activism, and culture

Drawing on ethnographic research with underrepresented communities in the Caribbean, Europe, South America, and the United States, this wide-ranging anthology examines the gendered dimensions of citizenship experiences and uses them as a point of departure for rethinking contemporary practices of social inclusion and national belonging. INDICE: - Introduction: Collectivity and Comparativity: A Feminist Approach to Citizenship; Gender and Cultural Citizenship Inter-University Working Group - PART I: ACTIVISM AND ORGANIZING - Gender and Citizenship: Teorías in Practice in Immigrant Women's Community Organization in San Francisco; K.Coll - Black Women, Cultural Citizenship, and the Struggle for Social Justice in Brazil; K.L.Caldwell - Zones of Autonomy: Gendered Cultural Citizenship and Indigenous Women's Organizing in Mexico; M.Blackwell - PART II: GENDER, DIASPORA, AND TRANSNATIONALISM - Inappropriate/Appropriated Feelings: The Gendered Construction of Transnational Citizenship; F.Besserer - The Globalization of Care: Gender Inequalities in the New Economy; R.Salazar Parreñas - Queen of the Chinese Colony: Contesting Ethnicity& Nation among Chinese in Central America and Panama; L.Siu - PART III: NARRATIVES OF BELONGING - Gender, College, and Cultural Citizenship: A Case Study of Mexican-Heritage Students in Higher Education; R.Benmayor - Gender, Belonging, and Native American Women: The Activism of Cecelia Fire Thunder and Sarah Deer; R.K.Ramirez - Sex in the Nation: White Women, Brown Babies, and the Politics of Belonging; T.Fisher -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-61985-2
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 224
• Fecha Publicación: 13/01/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés