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positions (2020) 28 (2): 481–495.
Published: 01 May 2020
... (blog) , June 17 . inklusionvekadinmuzeleri.wordpress.com/2017/06/17/womens-active-museum-on-war-and-peace . Commentary Building a Global Feminist Alliance for Peace in East Asia Sit Tsui and Lau Kin Chi Women Peace Walk across the DMZ We are enduring an era of vacillations between threats...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 581–606.
Published: 01 August 2021
... had chosen to stay legally unmarried despite having relationships and families that were, by all other considerations, typical of (or as unremarkable as) families of couples who are registered. As part of a study of feminist activism and the koseki system carried out in 2012–13 and during...
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 811–823.
Published: 01 November 2019
...) of China. 3 For an account of He s early engagement with feminist activism in Beijing in the 1980s, see He 2001; Milwertz 2002; and Bao 2019. 4 For a discussion about contract marriages between lesbians and gay men in China, see Kam 2013; and Engebretsen 2014. 5 Cankao Xiaoxi (Reference News) is a Chinese...
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positions (2013) 21 (4): 947–985.
Published: 01 November 2013
... significance of socialist women’s social and cultural activism in promoting the cause of women laborers.6 Building upon these recent studies, the present article seeks to contribute to a fresh feminist reading of the historical significance of 1930s...
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 575–602.
Published: 01 August 2020
... and the terrors of the ideological war surrounding it created a long hiatus in the development of Korean feminism that lasted until the 1980s. This view is in contrast with feminist historian Leila J. Rupp, who has viewed Cold War rivalries as beneficial for women s increased activities (Rupp 1997: 47). Several...
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positions (1999) 7 (1): 225–237.
Published: 01 February 1999
... a clearly defined industry, as a survival strategy, or as a way of making do when other options are limited or closed. How do feminists concerned with structural gendered inequalities and patriarchies deal with such claims? Are Third...
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 87–119.
Published: 01 February 2020
... University Press . Camouflaged Histories: Lei Yan as Chinese Guerrilla Girl Sasha Su- Ling Welland In July 2002, Lei Yan traveled from her hometown of Kunming to the village of Luoshui to participate in a feminist art activity in this rural corner of Yunnan in southwestern China. The activity...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 373–398.
Published: 01 May 2010
... feminism, Ding takes issue with mainstream feminist politics’ negation of sex workers’ agency and its reticence regarding the abuse of migrant domestic workers in Taiwanese society. This classist gender politics is, Ding discerns, animated...
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 237–274.
Published: 01 February 2020
... to attempt a more elaborate coverage of women artists in HK was Eva Man (professor in philosophy and feminist aesthetics), board member of the independent art space 1a, founded in 1998. Funded by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, she covered ten HK women artists active in the 1990s in her 184- page...
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 659–675.
Published: 01 August 2020
... learned of the Japan section of WILPF, which I joined in 2001. Through the work of WILPF, I hoped to connect local activities with transnational feminist peace movements. While studying in New York a few years earlier, I had worked with the WILPF UN office on feminist peace issues between 1995 and 1999. I...
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positions (2018) 26 (4): 561–592.
Published: 01 November 2018
... 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...
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positions (2012) 20 (3): 851–875.
Published: 01 August 2012
... through speaking tours, interviews, and letters to edi- tors of print publications. Beginning years before the of cial entry of the US into the war, the US press followed and documented her fashions, travels, life story, political activism...
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positions (2020) 28 (3): 677–688.
Published: 01 August 2020
... with war trauma, forced suicides, starvation, rape, and the brutalization before and after the defeat of Japan. While Matsumura shows that the historical subject here is Isahama Women Farmers, a collectivity, she reveals how this group subject initiated feminist action to center their experience. We...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 453–468.
Published: 01 August 2021
.... The conference brought together historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and scholars in gender and legal studies to discuss family, household law, and family-related activism in a comparative and historical manner. Papers spanned the period from the turn of the twentieth century to the turn of the twenty...
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positions (2010) 18 (2): 321–349.
Published: 01 May 2010
... These Three Women (1985) respectively. These quotations can be read as exemplifying the representation of feminine sexuality in 1980s new-­woman, new-­feminist texts. These representations inexorably associate active sexual agency...
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Tani Barlow Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Introduction Two expository essays on problems of thinking in feminism across national conventions or canons open this issue. Mary John argues in “Sexing the Fetus: Feminist...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 657–658.
Published: 01 August 2021
..., and Privilege (2018), based on ethnographic research with feminists and surname activists in the Tokyo area. Her current project explores the intersections of gender, race, and class in the koseki system. Sungyun Lim is associate professor of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her research...
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positions (2020) 28 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 February 2020
... . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press . Deepwell Katy . 1995 . “Feminist Art Criticism in a New Context ”. In New Feminist Art Criticism: Critical Strategies , edited by Deepwell Katy , 1 – 13 . Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press . Evans Harriet . 2005 . “ Book...
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positions (1998) 6 (2): 394–438.
Published: 01 May 1998
... autobiographical writing, which is not only a linguistic product but also both a subjective and a social product? What can society or conventions do to a woman and her autobiographical writings, and how should feminist studies read out of a woman’s...
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positions (1994) 2 (2): 430–445.
Published: 01 May 1994
..., and transnational environmen- tal activism. While some of this scholarship is attentive to understanding subject positions constructed by multiple and contingent social divisions, Kaplan and Grewal I Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies 435...