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positions (2014) 22 (1): 103–130.
Published: 01 February 2014
... growth into the emblem of the civilized future of the nation, the other about her old-fashioned mother whose symbolic position vacillates between the nation's venerable past and the “uncivilized” who are predisposed to invasion by foreign powers. The split not only places the female characters...
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positions (1994) 2 (1): 113–132.
Published: 01 February 1994
...Sophie Volpp Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 The Discourse on Male Marriage: Li Yu's 'A Male Mencius's Mother"
Sophie Volpp
Difference is an effect of inventive syncretism.- James Clifford, "On Ethno-
graphic Authority...
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positions (1994) 2 (3): 467–499.
Published: 01 August 1994
...Anne Allison Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 463
Transgressions of the Everyday:
Stories of Mother-Son Incest in Japanese Popular Culture
Anne Allison...
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positions (2017) 25 (4): 795–820.
Published: 01 November 2017
... . Paxson Heather . 2004 . Making Modern Mothers: Ethics and Family Planning in Urban Greece . Berkeley : University of California Press . Pettigrew Judith Shneiderman Sara . 2004 . “Women and the Maobadi: Ideology and Agency in Nepal's Maoist Movement.” Himal Southasian 17...
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Published: 01 February 2022
Figure 3 Mother and child with Dakko-chan doll. Courtesy of LIFE Photo Collection.
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in Intersecting Labor in the Social Factory: Trajectory of a Migrant Woman in South China
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 1 Homemade millet bread that Zuo Mei had baked with her mother. Photograph by Zuo Mei.
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in Jiang Qing, the Iconic Anti-icon: Visual Dissection of Female Political Power in Post-Mao People's Republic of China
> positions: asia critique
Published: 01 August 2024
Figure 9 “Between Mother and Child” (n.d.), caricature by unknown author. Courtesy of The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library's Digital Repository, https://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/item/cuhk-1291111 (accessed March 1, 2022).
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positions (2019) 27 (4): 713–737.
Published: 01 November 2019
... marriage but to resolve the tension between the demands of “Indian tradition” on middle-class young women and their desire for a selfhood inflected by neoliberal discourses of autonomy. This dichotomy is symbolized in the novels in the tension between mothers and daughters and plays out primarily across...
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positions (2021) 29 (3): 551–579.
Published: 01 August 2021
... of lesbian co-mothers to secure vital legal guarantees for the families they create through intentional childbearing. As pioneers who have formed families in a legal vacuum, these parents harbor deep hopes for what law will offer but simultaneously doubt that legal reforms will guarantee the rights...
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positions (2024) 32 (4): 821–846.
Published: 01 November 2024
... reach of global discourses like intensive mothering into China’ s migrant-worker population. Intensive mothering has long been learned as the dominant culture of motherhood in North America. Along with other products and ideas, this ideology of intensive mothering is imported to China’ s new generation...
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Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 1 Chinese online articles on intensive mothering showing white children in Anglophone settings (Shishang mabao 2015).
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positions (2011) 19 (1): 83–107.
Published: 01 February 2011
...Richard Reitan In early twentieth-century Japan, educators, journalists, and government bureaucrats debated the “proper” roles for women in society. They approached this “woman problem” as a struggle between two competing moral ideals for women: the “good wife/wise mother” and the “new woman...
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positions (2012) 20 (2): 497–526.
Published: 01 May 2012
..., or emotional inadequacies of poor, rural single mothers who abandon their children. Such claims about maternal unfitness are part of a growing neoliberal tendency in Vietnam to render the family and reproduction technical problems to be solved through the application of scientific expertise. Although rendering...
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positions (2016) 24 (1): 281–302.
Published: 01 February 2016
...Sharmila Rudrappa This article builds from the author's transnational fieldwork on surrogacy in India, based on interviews with seventy surrogate mothers, thirty-one egg donors, and twenty intended parents in the United States and Australia. The author's work on global surrogacy is embedded...
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positions (2018) 26 (3): 450–482.
Published: 01 August 2018
... murderous impulses from his mother and kills to reclaim the jewels he makes. The jeweler forbids his Japanese apprentice from marrying his daughter, fearing her blood is contaminated as well. After the apprentice takes the blame for his master’s crimes, a painter attempts to understand his motivations...
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positions (2009) 17 (2): 289–314.
Published: 01 May 2009
... in Taiwan reveals, through historical lenses, the ways in which law constructs national membership along gendered lines that subordinate women. Specifically, I examine how a woman's membership to the nation was dependent on her marital status, how citizen-mothers were deprived of the entitlement to define...
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positions (2012) 20 (3): 793–804.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Julie Thi Underhill At twenty-two, Julie Thi Underhill met her dying grandmother Thị Oai and began a portrait series in her mother's home village. Seven years later, she returned with her family to Phước Lập, a Hindu Chăm village in south central Viet Nam, where she photographed and filmed her...
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positions (2012) 20 (4): 1095–1125.
Published: 01 November 2012
... gaige, which aims to cultivate well-rounded individuals with a spirit of innovation. The first story I will analyze concerns a teenager, an achieving student, who murdered his own mother. The second concerns a father, a factory worker, who transformed his disabled daughter into a genius child. While...
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positions (2013) 21 (1): 73–93.
Published: 01 February 2013
... female Japanese student who died of tuberculosis at age twenty-one, through a reading of her Yamatojuku nikki , the Diary of Yamato School . Asano's diary documents most forcefully the desire of a young woman for imperial validation, neither as a wife nor a mother — two legitimate categories of women...
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positions (2016) 24 (4): 813–837.
Published: 01 November 2016
... argues that while Tokieda's pro-kōminka essays and Kim Saryang's story of mixed ethnic identity may seem to convey divergent messages, both authors rely upon—and simultaneously abject—the figure of the mother, as well as the fissured relations of gender, class, and ethnicity embodied by her. Copyright...
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