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... on War and Peace, and PeaceWomen Across the Globe—and argues for feminist scholarship to take an interdisciplinary approach and, in particular, to fuse peace studies with cultural studies, political economy, and global geopolitics. Doing so requires an examination of the history and the scope...

... connections between Indian struggles over the problem and two U.S. feminist texts, Donna Haraway's essay “Fetus: The Virtual Speculum in the New World Order” and Rayna Rapp's ethnography Testing Women, Testing the Fetus . Many levels of disconnect across our respective “naturecultures” become visible...

...Lara C. W. Blanchard Cui Xiuwen (b. 1970) and Yu Hong (b. 1966) are contemporary Chinese artists whose images of women reflect a complicated gendered perspective. This article focuses on Cui’s Ladies’ Room (2000) and Yu’s Female Writer (2004, from the series She ). Both can be construed as feminist...

...Caren Kaplan; Inderpal Grewal Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Roundtable Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies: Beyond the Marxism/Poststructura(/sm/FeminismDivides Caren Kaplan and lnderpal Grewal Transnational feminism is neither...

.... It asks after the feminist nature of that gap space as the condition for dispersal of identity and the emergence of embodied and affective meaning. How does the work of art work to bring the feminist gap into the beholder's presence? How do we as beholders enter into the feminist gap through our...

... theory has caused. Chinese feminist texts abound with terms such as trouble, difficulty , and clash , which are used to express worries about the consequences of this new orientation of feminism in China. They prove that the import of Western theory and the transition to “gender” as the basic category...

...Sunyoung Park In the early 1930s, a new group of women writers with a leftist inclination emerged on the Korean literary scene. Some critics have questioned the feminist commitment of these writers, suggesting that their works may have subordinated the cause of women's liberation...

... a populist feminist antisex sentiment necessitates renewed understanding of its cultural-historical lineage and affinities. One aspect of feminist antisex sentiment is embedded in an imagined concubinage against which an exemplary wife-in-monogamy envisions continuous battle. To the extent that this cultural...

... their desperation as mothers and wives simply trying to protect their families from certain death—it proposes a reconsideration of this assessment. A Marxist feminist perspective that centers on the concept of social reproduction enables a linking of their struggle to a broader genealogy of political struggle...

... and a socialist approach to women’s problems have been a reality on Chinese soil that deserves recognition for feminist theory building. Socialism as a historical legacy and memory is indicative of China’s postsocialist situation, which, as the author argues, has a deep impact on the epistemological, theoretical...

... encounter with US feminist art icon Judy Chicago raised questions about the potential neocolonial influence of global feminist art. The work Lei subsequently produced performs an autoethnographic excavation of the sociohistorical categories—woman soldier, military artist, and woman artist—that made her...

... of a Communist-influenced movement for modern girls whose subjectivities were awakened by Western humanist concerns? This article engages select articles from Chinü zazhi ( Red Women Magazine ) to argue that China’s proletarian women’s movement reconciled Marxist, nationalist, and feminist demands. It was able...

... relations and internationally circulating PRC-produced cultural material that articulated feminist ideals as part of Afro-Asian-Latin American solidarity. This article returns to well-known texts of Maoist China to rethink state-produced Chinese feminism as a Cold War framework and gendered globality...

... this debate may be familiar within contemporary feminist discourses, communist feminisms that stretched across the Cold War divide were no less conflicted about what to do with sex difference, most explicitly represented by sexual violence and biological motherhood. Even as communist states implemented top...

... the legitimate claims of Moros for secession/separation from the Philippines but also the feminist critique of military sexual violations against Moro women. Yet despite the controlling pro-peace discourse, the film features a series of fractures and discontinuities in narrative and characterization that leave...

... that evoke an invisible system of spatial violence. Adding a gendered twist to Walter Benjamin’s Marxist critique of phantasmagorias of the interior, Li’s feminist interior portrays a post-socialist masculinist urban (bodies-cities) network, where women are seen as displaced, homeless, and disappeared...

...Charmaine Carvalho Although chick lit, epitomized by novels such as Bridget Jones’s Diary , has been analyzed by feminist critics as an example of postfeminist culture, the transnational spread of the genre has resulted in transformations that invite fresh consideration. In the Indian context...

..., astronomy, gemology, and urbanization, with many forgoing the label of feminist—or even women’s—art. Each sought to transcend the limitations of personal experience and achieve a greater human resonance. This study examines the work of thirteen women artists whose careers are relatively unknown...

... and bamboo rings, reflect Tabe's concern about industrial pollution. While their thick texture followed the signature Kyūshū-ha style, Tabe's works often stood out for expressing strong social consciousness, including proto-feminist concerns in the early 1960s. During her pregnancy, she created a mixed-media...

... the artist sketches out a feminist anatomy of desire in an idiom of negativity. In close connection, it examines the artist's explicit pedagogic intent to initiate public discussions on femininity and sexuality in Thailand. In her video performances, the artist reads passages from Thai classical literature...