| Queering the Global Filipina Body: Contested Nationalisms in the Filipina/O Diaspora Contributor(s): Velasco, Gina K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 025208537X ISBN-13: 9780252085376 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $25.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies - Social Science | Gender Studies - Social Science | Prostitution & Sex Trade |
| Dewey: 305.409 |
| LCCN: 2020025978 |
| Physical Information: 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Contemporary popular culture stereotypes Filipina women as sex workers, domestic laborers, mail order brides, and caregivers. These figures embody the gendered and sexual politics of representing the Philippine nation in the Filipina/o diaspora. Gina K. Velasco explores the tensions within Filipina/o American cultural production between feminist and queer critiques of the nation and popular nationalism as a form of resistance to neoimperialism and globalization. Using a queer diasporic analysis, Velasco examines the politics of nationalism within Filipina/o American cultural production to consider an essential question: can a queer and feminist imagining of the diaspora reconcile with gendered tropes of the Philippine nation? Integrating a transnational feminist analysis of globalized gendered labor with a consideration of queer cultural politics, Velasco envisions forms of feminist and queer diasporic belonging, while simultaneously foregrounding nationalist movements as vital instruments of struggle. |